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Cluster Parishes of Portsmouth & Chesapeake
Church of the Holy Angels
St. Mary Catholic Church
St. Paul Catholic Church
Cluster Pastoral Council
All Saints Catholic Cemetery
About Our Adult Formation
Continuing Adult Formation Opportunities
About Our Youth Ministry
Children's Formation
About Our Children's Formation
Eucharist is the pre-eminent sacrament from which all others have meaning, the source and summit of all Christian life. The Sunday celebration of the Eucharist is at the heart of the Church’s life. It is the ritual, sacramental action of thanksgiving to God which constitutes the principal Christian liturgical celebration of and communion in the paschal mystery of Christ. The liturgical action called the Eucharist is also traditionally known as the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The Eucharist completes Christian initiation and is a repeatable sacrament.
Youth First Communion (Eucharist) Preparation:
Based on Diocesan Policies for Sacramental Preparation guidelines, children begin their preparation for First Eucharist when they have entered the 2nd grade. Students in both public and Catholic schools should attend this yearlong preparation in the parish Religious Formation program. Children should take part in the regular religious education program (either with the parish or in a Catholic School) for at least one year before they prepare for these sacraments. For additional information, please contact Kristi Harriman at 757-484-7335 or [email protected].
Adult First Communion (Eucharist):
Adults who have not received First Communion as a child must first be confirmed in the Catholic Church. For adults desiring baptism (if needed), confirmation, and Eucharist, the Cluster Parishes offer these individuals the opportunity to receive these Sacraments as part of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). For more information about RCIA, please click here.
Please note: There is NO REQUIREMENT to join or be registered at any of our parishes to receive the Sacraments. You are always welcome to do so, however there is NO REQUIREMENT. Please contact Deacon Kevin by e-mail or call (757) 484-7335 if you have questions.
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A view from Katie Leach
What effect has England's Rugby World Cup exit had on brands?
The Rugby World Cup saw an unwelcome record last weekend. For the first time, a host nation failed to make it out of the group stage of the tournament - a record that sponsors, along with England fans, would rather have remained unbroken for at least another four years. Katie Leach, account director from Arc Sponsorship, part of Leo Burnett, asks what does this mean for brands?
Katie Leach
Lucozade adopted the strategy of backing the four home nations with the "for home nations only" campaign, a decision that now appears to have been a wise one
We’ve seen two types of strategy from brands. First from those who have placed all their eggs in one basket and have focused on backing a particular team. Brands taking this approach include O2, Admiral and Air New Zealand.
Then there are those which have taken the more global approach, working alongside ambassadors from a number of nations or focusing on their rights, such as Beats by Dre, Heineken and Guinness. For some, this strategy appears to be paying off, while others have had their campaigns knocked into touch alongside the England team.
Disappointment for #WearTheRose
O2, arguably the brand that has carried out the most activity around England, will be particularly disappointed with the result at the weekend. Its campaign encouraging fans to support the team to victory has grown in stature across the three weeks, the result of which has seen O2 rise up the ranks in our Brandtasy league table from 11th to currently stand at joint fifth (see below for methodology).
The brand’s social engagement has seen a rise of 5%, no doubt aided by the #WearTheRose campaign. As soon as England finishes the match against Uruguay, on Saturday, we will see the end to this advertising campaign and the roses will be removed from O2’s 377 stores.
Home nations only
In contrast, Lucozade adopted the strategy of backing the four home nations with the "for home nations only" campaign, a decision that now appears to have been a wise one. The brand has consistently been placed in the top three of our Brandtasy League table, showing particularly high scores in perceived fit and social engagement, the latter of which has risen 14% since the beginning of the tournament.
Heineken has invested nearly half its total marketing budget into the Rugby World Cup sponsorship
For as long as a home nation team remains in the competition, Lucozade can continue to create engaging content around ‘banning’ other nations from getting their hands on their product.
Top tier worldwide partner Heineken, which has invested nearly half its total marketing budget into the Rugby World Cup sponsorship, is apparently benefitting from such a large spend.
It has moved up four places in the league, from ninth to fifth over the past three weeks. The most notable reason for the rise being around social engagement. Heineken has achieved this by taking the global approach of focusing advertising around its rights as the "official coin toss" partner rather than backing a specific team, providing longevity across the tournament.
As the group stages come to an end and the final eight teams are decided, we are starting to see which brands will emerge as the winners and losers.
Some will be hugely disappointed and out of the competition, while others are just getting started will continue to rise up the ranks.
It will be interesting to see if brands are capable of capitalising on the gap left by England’s loss. Opportunities on a national level may now exist for the likes of mobile network 3, the current sponsor of the Ireland team, and for Admiral, which has already run some activation work in support of Wales. With advertising inhabiting a less cluttered environment following England’s exit, the real opportunity appears to exist for the official Rugby World Cup sponsors who have the global rights and a real chance to leverage this opportunity.
Arc’s Brandtasy League ranks sponsors and non-sponsors based on their performance during the Rugby World Cup.
The League uses research generated by our Sponsor DNA tool to investigate sponsorship awareness, perceived fit, brand affinity, purchase intent and monitor social engagement of 20 brands.
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O2’s England rugby sponsorship is a success story, despite the team’s early exit
England exit 'won't affect' rugby momentum, says World Cup boss
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O2 acknowledges 'ups and downs' as England crashes out
Watch: how financial technology is changing the way we pay
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Where the UK meets Latin America and Iberia
A Celebration of Latin American Cinema
Hermione Greenhalgh
In celebration of the rising international appreciation of Latin American cinema, Canning House - in collaboration with Raindance Film Festival, Instituto Cervantes and CASA – invited three influential filmmakers to discuss the increase in representation of Latin American characters and subjectivities in film.
UK/Latin America Finance Conference
Old Library and Print Room, Guildhall, Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HH
We are delighted to announce Canning House’s Finance event will be held in partnership with The City of London. The event will focus on Green Finance, Infrastructure and Fintech.
This year's Canning Conference focused on Infrastructure
75 years of building relationships and understanding
We are the UK’s leading forum for contacts, thought-leadership and pragmatic debate on Latin American and Iberian political, economic and social trends and issues, and business risks and opportunities.
Becoming a member at Canning House
By joining as an individual or corporate member, you will become part of our global network of individuals, institutions and businesses who share an interest in the Hispanic and Luso Brazilian world.
Some of the benefits of individual membership:
Some of the benefits of corporate membership:
Discounted tickets to public events
Access to exclusive events
Online access to our library of research and analysis
Opportunities to network with key players and decision makers in the UK, Latin America & Iberia
A weekly newsletter with updates from the region
A weekly report with commentary and analysis of Latin American current affairs
Some of our members:
Find out more about our membership plans.
Join us at one of our upcoming public events and meet other individuals interested in Latin America
Latin America Food & Drink Conference: Partnerships & New Markets
At this Canning House food and drink event, representatives from Latin American nations will have the opportunity to showcase the best of food and drink that their countries have to offer.
The Legacy of Habitat I: What Have we Learned about Self-Construction?
126 Wigmore St, Marylebone, London W1U 3RZ
Dr Adriana Massidda, the first beneficiary of a new library visiting fellowship scheme, jointly offered by Canning House and King's College London, will discuss the findings of her research on the urban poor in Latin America.
Get the latest on what's happening in Latin America with one of our webinars
100 days of AMLO
In just three months of Andrés Manuel López Obrador´s presidency, Mexico´s political landscape has shifted considerably. The country´s 120 million inhabitants makes it an indispensable economy for British companies and investors – which is why Canning House believes it is timely to develop a granular understanding of the opportunities and risks AMLO’s presidency holds.
Venezuela Crisis Update
On 23 January, Juan Guaidó, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly (AN), formally declared himself as the country’s interim president and said that he will now seek to organise a new general election process to elect a successor to the de facto president, Nicolás Maduro. What’s next for Venezuela? Canning House and LatinNews discuss.
Election Watch 2019
Canning House will be joined by Jon Farmer, Gunther Baumgarten and Constance Malleret from LatinNews to analyse the 2018 elections in Latin America, and forecast the shifting political landscape in 2019, with a particular – but not exclusive – focus on Brazil and Mexico.
Who Decides?: The Impact of Habitat I on the Urban Poor in Latin America
Adriana Massidda
03rd Jul 2019
Dr Adriana Massidda, the first beneficiary of a new library visiting fellowship scheme, jointly offered by Canning House and King's College London, outlines her research.
How can we build a more disability-inclusive society?
02nd Jul 2019
The third event in the Opportunities series looked at the measures being developed in the UK and Latin America to ensure the full inclusion of disabled people at all levels of society.
Our research analyses a broad range of Latin American political, economic and social trends and issues, and business risks and opportunities.
11-07-19 Latin American Weekly Report
Urzúa plunges knife into López Obrador amid security crisis
LatinNews
Mercosur seals EU trade deal but political trials lie ahead
Eroding support for Venezuela’s Maduro
65-06-19 Economy & Business Report
Economy & Business Report
Infrastructure crucial for regional economic growth, says IDB
21st Jun 2019
By joining as an individual member you’ll have the opportunity to access our wide range of public events at a discounted rate, as well as additional benefits such as online access to in-depth reports, webinar recordings and This Week in Latin America news articles.
Find out more about our membership plans
Get the latest information on upcoming Canning House events and other events related to Latin America and Iberia across the UK and beyond.
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Public assistance sought in paintball equipment theft
Published: Nov 13, 2018 at 7:55 p.m.
Shown is one of the paintball markers taken from the Cape Breton County Paintball Club on Monday. An estimated $5,000 worth of equipment was stolen. - Contributed
SYDNEY, N.S. — Efforts to establish an outdoor gaming business were dealt a serious setback this week when a significant quantity of paintball gear was stolen from Cape Breton County Paintball.
Club member Tyler MacPhee said an estimated $5,000 worth of equipment was taken from his car sometime between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Monday while he was clearing portions of a 12-acre club lot on Beechmont Road.
“There’s only so much of this gear available and it is one of (a kind),” he said. “They don’t make this gear anymore and that’s how we acquired it. It has lots of life left and it is the right gear for us because we are in the beginning and starting new. It’s just a big setback.”
Among the items taken were unique and easily identifiable equipment, including paintball markers (guns), tanks, hoppers, barrel bags, a scuba tank and MacPhee’s personal bag of paintball gear.
Other personal items and cash were also taken.
MacPhee said the club had been working to establish a presence in the community so that people could try paintball to see if it was a recreation option for them.
“That’s basically where we are at with that. You can come and play and if there is some sort of interest around here maybe it will grow into something else.
“This is marketing research at its finest.”
Without the stolen gear, though, he said any potential growth plans won’t work.
Cape Breton Regional Police have been investigating and MacPhee’s plea through social media has him netted many leads.
To help, you can contact police and reference case file 2018057579.
“Really what I am doing is learning if it is going to work or if it is not going to work. Right now, it is not going to work.”
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All asbestos exposures may be deemed a cause of mesothelioma
In brief - High Court asbestos decision confirms previous approach - raises question of legislation
The High Court's decision on 14 December 2011 in the case Amaca Pty Limited v Booth [2011] HCA 53 has confirmed that all material exposures to asbestos may be deemed a cause of mesothelioma.
Asbestos cases continue to be appealed
Cases involving exposure to asbestos continue to attract appellate court attention. Yesterday's decision by the High Court in Amaca v Booth reviewed expert evidence available to a trial judge in the Dust Diseases Tribunal (DDT) of New South Wales.
The majority of the Court concluded that such evidence supported a conclusion that all material exposures to asbestos may be deemed a cause of mesothelioma. The decision will impact the way such cases are run at trial and also the question of insurance cover for mesothelioma claims in general.
Booth exposed to asbestos at work
John Booth was a mechanic. He worked with brake linings containing asbestos. Like all Australians he was exposed to ambient asbestos. He also had minor additional exposure to asbestos in home renovation and cartage work. Mr Booth contracted mesothelioma. He sued the manufacturers of the brake linings with which he worked, Amaca (formerly James Hardie) and Amaba Pty Limited (formerly Hardie-Ferodo).
At trial various medical experts for Mr Booth expressed a view that all asbestos exposures above the ambient background contribute to the cause of mesothelioma. Based on that evidence the trial judge (Curtis DCJ) found in favour of Mr Booth and awarded him damages of $326,640.
NSW Court of Appeal dismisses appeal of brake lining manufacturers
Amaca and Amaba appealed to the NSW Court of Appeal. They argued that, properly analysed, the evidence of the relevant experts did no more than express a view that exposure to asbestos added to the risk of contracting mesothelioma - not that all exposures were a legal cause of injury. This argument had previously been adopted as the factual sub-stratum for the revolutionary decision of the House of Lords in Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Limited.
The NSW Court of Appeal dismissed the manufacturers' appeal. They obtained Special Leave to Appeal to the High Court.
High Court agrees with decision of Dust Diseases Tribunal
The High Court found that the expert evidence before the trial judge supported a finding that cumulative exposure to asbestos was the cause of Mr Booth's injury. That factual finding was unimpeachable given the nature of appeal rights from the DDT - which are limited to questions of law.
Gummow, Hayne and Crennan JJ expressly agreed with the Court of Appeal's conclusion that:
Findings as to the cumulative effect of exposure to asbestos were undoubtedly open.
French CJ stated:
The cumulative effect mechanism, accepted by [the trial judge], implicated the products of both Amaca and Amaba in the development of Mr Booth's disease. The primary judge's interpretation of the expert evidence and his conclusions from it, were open as a matter of law.
Heydon J dissented. In a careful analysis of the expert evidence, his Honour came to the conclusion that such material did no more than demonstrate that incremental exposure to asbestos adds to risk but could not be properly characterised as a legal cause of Mr Booth's injury.
Implications for future asbestos cases
The lessons from this case:
Defendants in mesothelioma litigation should assume that absent compelling expert evidence of their own, each incremental negligently-caused exposure to asbestos will be deemed a cause of the illness (and as such align Australian law with the decision in Fairchild but on evidentiary as opposed to legal/policy grounds)
While a causation defence is available in asbestos litigation, it will be easier to make out where there is a competing risk factor - for example smoking (Amaca Pty Limited v Ellis [2010] HCA 5)
The decision raises an interesting issue as to the trigger for any insurance which might meet the claim. If all exposure is deemed causal then will all policies of insurance that cover the relevant exposure period and respond to such a claim be triggered (which is the approach which Santow JA took in his dissenting opinion in Orica Limited v CGU Insurance Limited [2003] NSWCA 331
Mesothelioma claims will continue to be part of the Australian litigation landscape for a number of years. As Heydon J states:
The extent of exposure to asbestos amongst those now living, the likely exposure amongst those yet to be born, and the likelihood of further injury taking place when asbestos is removed from the many places where is it now found, mean that problems of the kind thrown up in these appeals will remain for decades to come. Perhaps a social-medical problem of this size requires a legislative solution. [Emphasis added]
The remarks of Heydon J raise an important issue for discussion. One hopes that self interest and inertia do not lead to the issue being overlooked.
For further information or advice in relation to the High Court's decision or in asbestos matters generally, please contact the author.
Legal update : Asbestos - a new risk ... to landlords
David Miller Partner
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Motorcyclist ticketed for wearing panda suit on highway
September 20, 2017 / 5:54 PM / CBS News
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Police say they have "so many questions" in response to a unique traffic stop that was conducted in late August, which involved a motorcyclist traveling in a panda suit.
CBS Minnesota reports a concerned driver called 911 earlier in the summer to report the motorcyclist's vision appeared to be obstructed by a panda suit as they wove through traffic no-handed.
The biker exited the freeway before a trooper could locate him. But on Aug. 31, dispatchers found him on traffic cameras.
He was subsequently cited for reckless driving. The panda head was confiscated.
Authorities reminded riders to make sure they can see and can be seen by other vehicles.
"Halloween's not for more than a month. And even if Halloween was today, this would not be OK or legal, in case you were wondering," the state patrol said. "A panda head will not protect you in a crash like a DOT-approved helmet would."
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The world's 10 best restaurants
El Celler de Can Roca
Restaurant magazine's annual ranking of the world's 50 best restaurants was revealed during a ceremony in London on April 30, 2013.
Pictured here is Avant-garde eatery El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain, which was named to the No. 1 spot. Rene Redzepi's innovative Danish restaurant Noma, which had held the honor for the past three years, after ousting renowned Spanish restaurant elBulli from the top spot in 2010, found itself at the still respectable no. 2 position.
See who else made the cut ...
Credit: El Celler de Can Roca
Noma held the top spot on the list for three years running. Now at no. 2, its seasonal, terroir-led Scandinavian fare is still a hard act to beat.
Credit: Dresling Jens/AP
Osteria Francescana
The modern Italian restaurant in Modena, Italy, has a new dish this year named "camouflage" - a thin layer of foie gras decorated with hare blood, chestnut, and herbs, arranged to look like army woodland camo. Prego!
Credit: Osteria Francescana
Mugaritz, a Basque restaurant in San Sebastian, Spain is owned by Andoni Aduriz who wants you to know that his chocolate cake, with cold almond cream and cocoa bubbles, is among his top dishes.
Credit: Rafa Rivas/AFP/Getty Images
Eleven Madison Park
Chef Daniel Humm, pictured here, leads the crew at Eleven Madison Park in New York City - the only U.S. eatery on the top ten list. One of the featured dishes is the surf clam with morcilla sausage and celery root clam bake with whelk, Parker House roll and chowder.
Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
D.O.M.
This Brazilian destination restaurant is headed up by chef Alex Atala where he experiments with ingredients from the Amazon rainforest. D.O.M. happens to also hold the no. 1 spot on the South American version of the Top 50 list, a post it has now boasted for four straight years.
Credit: Cassio Vasconcellos/Lotus PR
This London restaurant was conceived by legendary British chef, Ashley Palmer-Watts. He and his team mine recipes dating as far back as the 14th century, and rework them using contemporary cooking techniques.
Credit: Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
Arzak is the second Spanish restaurant from San Sebastian on the list. This cutting-edge Basque restaurant boasts one of its top dishes is the lobster in a crisp potato shell with a cobaiba sauce and red pepper sphere.
Steirereck
Chef Heinz Reitbauer plays with Austria
Credit: Steirereck
Chef Joachim Wissler heads this modern German eatery where one of the tasting menus has an epic 25 courses.
Credit: Vendome
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Home » Christmas Party (Yule Tied 12)
Christmas Party (Yule Tied 12)
Author: Shelby Morgen
Cover Art: Bryan Keller
BIN: 07899-02549
Genres: Guilty Pleasures (Contemporary), Romance
Themes: Big Beautiful Women, Christmas, Men and Women in Uniform
Series: Yule Tied (#12)
Book Length: Novella
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Cherie, office IT tech and unmitigated girl-gamer-geek, protects her privacy by telling the office matchmakers she has a boyfriend stationed overseas. Tech Sergeant Zakarias, the unit IT guy, tells the guys on base he's got a girlfriend waiting back home. Both lies are designed to keep the two of them safely insulated from well meaning friends -- and heartbreak.
When the two IT people voted least likely to ever get a date collide at Cherie's office Christmas party, they decide it's easier to ride the holidays out together than try to escape their own lies. They've got a lot in common, but is the chemistry they share enough to make up for all the reasons they've been determined to stay single?
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"I laughed so hard through this short story and was utterly charmed within the first couple of pages... this is a realistic, hilarious and wonderfully sexy short story. The chemistry between Cherie and Zak was smoking hot, and I loved how quickly and easily they managed to click emotionally as well as physically."
-- 4.5 Stars from Fern, Long and Short Reviews
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Christmas Party (Yule Tied)
Shelby Morgen
Copyright ©2016 Shelby Morgen
I stared at the huge cut crystal punch bowl, grinding my teeth a little. Some days I really wish people wouldn't try to help -- especially when they have no clue what they're doing. Like pouring four two liter bottles of ginger ale into the bowl -- warm -- before the ice cream. Which meant that now, when I tried to add the ice cream, even a scoop at a time, the whole thing blew up like Mount Vesuvius, and threatened to overflow all over yards of holiday plaid tablecloth.
And if the mess weren't enough, now the ice cream wasn't going to get to do the slow melt that kept the punch cold for hours while I tended the table. I sponged at the pop-fizzy spray that was settling on my face and the front of my red velvet Christmas dress, trying to restore order to my little piece of tonight's world.
Unfortunately this particular disaster was pretty much a mirror of my life.
I didn't want to be here in the first place. I don't hate Christmas -- who could hate Christmas? -- but I really do hate social events. Especially Christmas parties. Have since I was a kid. I don't like meeting people, or acting like I like meeting people, or pretending I don't want to dance, when everyone else is out on the floor, and no one asks me, because surely Cherie doesn't want to dance, or she wouldn't be here alone.
I'm only alone because Zack can't be here. Where is he? Oh, Zack's in Afghanistan. He's in the military. He can't tell me a lot about where he is, or what he's doing, but he should be home next summer.
Unless he re-ups.
Which he might have to, because Zack can't come home. That's because I invented Zack, so people would quit asking me why I didn't want to go to parties. He's currently deployed in Afghanistan, because I know nothing about Afghanistan, and neither does anyone I work with.
Which is why my concerned, caring coworkers, especially Nancy, the matchmaker from hell with a dozen cousins-in-law, badgered me into joining our Military Support group, Friends and Family. But of course that means I get time off to volunteer for every event Friends and Family sponsors, and let me tell you, Friends and Family is an active organization. So now instead of ignoring everyone and getting to stay home playing online games I end up working things like this Christmas party for returning GIs.
Which, in truth, is why I was currently chipping a gallon of vanilla ice cream into a huge bowl more than half full of ginger ale, watching the rising tide of escaping sugar-based lava implode, and generally wishing I could just go hide in the ladies room and cry.
"Need a hand?" The voice was deep, male, and incredibly sexy.
I blinked, startled I'd let a guy get that close to me without hearing him coming. But of course that wasn't really a surprise. He was, after all, military. It was a military party. Or at least lots of vets were invited.
I turned to face Mr. Sexy Voice and stopped, mentally forcing my mouth not to hang open mid comment, because perhaps for the first time in recorded history I was truly speechless. All I could do was stare in awe at that bundle of camo clad muscle. Who had just spoken to me, Cherie-the-gamer-geek. The woman men never even noticed.
Pull it together, Cherie. Say something. "Ahh..." Yeah, I know. Pretty unimpressive. "Need something," I managed to add. "Time travel would be good. Needed to get here ten minutes earlier, before someone decided to help."
"Einstein had some interesting theories on time travel, but even if we put our heads together I don't think we can get that done before the ice cream melts. What if we dump the ice into the cooler, pour the ginger ale into the ice bucket, and start over?"
I was still back on the part where he knew about Einstein's theories on time travel. Muscles like that and a geek? No way.
I forced myself to look at the mess in front of me and rally my wits a bit. "Better idea than anything I've come up with." And perfectly logical -- except I couldn't have picked up that punch bowl and poured its contents into anything.
Not that I'm a tiny, wimpy little thing. I'm kinda average height and a bit over average weight, though the red velvet dress was all about making that work for me, flaunting the curves. What I had of them. I'm not real busty, but I've got hips. And I do make a living picking up computers and printers and monitors and whatnot. So I have some muscle myself. Not like that, though.
What I did not have was height. That punch bowl... I'd end up wearing more of the punch than ever made it back into that bowl.
My savior dumped the loose ice into the oversized Coleman drink cooler and handed me the now empty blue plastic bucket. "Get a good grip on this so it doesn't make us chase it across the table."
I clamped the bucket down tight and watched my designated hero's biceps bulge as he picked up the punch bowl. I'm no featherweight, but the bowl itself must weigh close to thirty pounds. My rescuer poured the ginger ale in slow and steady, not losing a drop. He made the whole thing look easy.
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Home Cat Health Collection Birth in Cats – Signs of Labour and the Delivery Process
Birth in Cats – Signs of Labour and the Delivery Process
Signs of labour Preparing for the birth What supplies do I need? Stages of labour When to call a veterinarian How soon after birth can a cat come into heat?
Cat birth at a glance
How long is a cat pregnant?
The gestation period of a cat is 63-65 days.
What are the signs that a cat is about to give birth?
Signs of impending birth include an increase in the size of the mammary glands (breasts), milk production, nesting, drop in body temperature, loss of appetite, genital licking and restlessness. There are three stages to labour, contractions, delivery of the kitten, delivery of the afterbirth. Most kittens are born 15-30 minutes apart.
How long does it take a cat to give birth?
The average delivery of each kitten is between 5 minutes to 1 hour. Most kittens are delivered within 12 hours; however, birth can take as long as 48 hours.
Signs a cat giving birth is in trouble:
Call a veterinarian if the queen has been in stage 1 for more than 24 hours, has strong contractions lasting more than 1 hour, intense pushing for longer than 20 minutes if she has a fever or thick, black, foul-smelling discharge if delivery takes longer than seven hours.
Average number of kittens in a litter:
The average number of kittens is 4.
How soon after giving birth can a cat go into heat and mate?
A cat can go into heat as early as 6-8 weeks after giving birth.
How do I know my cat is going into labour?
Increase in size of mammary glands – The mammary glands increase in size during the last week of gestation.
Milk production – Approximately two days before the queen gives birth; milk can be expressed from the nipples.
Nesting – The queen will spend more time in her nesting box as birth approaches.
A decrease in temperature – Normal temperature in a cat is 100 – 102.5°F (37.7 – 39.1°C). A day or two before birth, her temperature drops to 99°F (37.2°C).
Change in behaviour – During the last week or so, your queen may become either reclusive (possibly seeking out a secluded place), or more affectionate, especially if she is particularly close to one caregiver.
Restlessness and pacing.
Frequent genital licking.
Clear discharge from the vagina.
The cat’s uterus (womb) has two horns, which come together with a central uterine cavity. The cervix is at the end of the uterine cavity and is closed during pregnancy. Developing kittens lie within the horns and are attached to the mother via the umbilical cord. The umbilical cord is attached to the placenta, which joins the mother and kitten together. The role of the placenta is to transport nourishment from the mother and to take waste away from the fetus (unborn kitten).
Preparing for the birth
During the last week of pregnancy, the place the kittening box in a warm, quiet, draft-free room (this is important as newborn kittens are unable to regulate their body temperature for the first three weeks of life),. The room should be off limit to children and other pets. She should be encouraged to sleep in this box.
Food, water, and a litter tray also need to be placed in this room.
Line the nesting box with old newspapers—which can easily be changed—or an old blanket. Make sure that the blanket isn’t going to snag the kittens’ claws.
Kittening box
Several pairs of sterile surgical gloves
Eyedropper or syringe to aspirate secretions from the mouth and nose
Dental floss or cotton thread to tie the umbilical cord
Antiseptic (Betadine, diluted to the colour of weak tea) to apply to the umbilical
cord stumps
Infant nasal cleaner
Clean towels
Your own vet’s phone number as well as an emergency veterinarian’s phone number
Kitten milk replacer (speak to your veterinarian)
Source of warmth for the kittens such as a hot water bottle wrapped in a blanket
Stages of labour in cats
First stage – 12 hours or more
Birth begins with the onset of uterine contractions. During this stage, the cervix begins to dilate (open). A clear, odourless discharge from the vagina is usually apparent. This discharge is known as the mucus plug and was in the cervix during pregnancy, sealing the uterus from the vagina. As the first stage progresses, contractions will become closer and closer together.
Second stage – 5 minutes to 1 hour
Contractions become stronger and closer together, and the cervix is fully dilated. The queen is ready to give birth. The kitten moves down the birth canal. Pressure on the cervix initiates the mother’s urge to push. You may see her visibly straining to push the kitten out. The kitten’s water bag (or bubble) is visible at the vulva; which bursts, the queen will clean up most of this liquid. It typically takes around three pushes for the kitten to be delivered.
The queen will tear and lick the membrane from the face and body, which will stimulate breathing. In the event, the queen doesn’t remove the membrane from the kitten’s mouth and nose, you should do this for her and follow-up by gently rub the kitten with a soft towel to stimulate breathing. Use the infant nasal cleaner to remove debris from the mouth and nose if necessary.
The second stage usually takes around 5 minutes to 1 hour. If the kitten hasn’t been born after an hour, call your veterinarian.
Immediately following the kitten’s birth, the placenta is delivered. Once the queen has cleaned the kitten and breathing has commenced, the queen will chew the umbilical cord in two and, quite often, will eat the placenta.
After delivery of a kitten, it is essential that you pay attention to the delivery of the placentas. Have a pen and paper close and make a note of how many placentas have been delivered. This is important because a retained placenta will lead to infection, which is life-threatening.
If the mother fails to chew the umbilical cord, you will have to do this. Tie a piece of dental floss around the cord no closer than 1 inch from the kitten’s body and snip it with a pair of sterile scissors. Be careful not to pull on the umbilical cord while doing this as it could result in an umbilical hernia.
Use the infant nasal cleaner to remove debris from the mouth and nose if necessary.
The kitten usually crawls towards a nipple and begins to nurse which helps to stimulate the uterus to contract, assisting with the delivery of the next kitten. If the kitten hasn’t moved to a nipple and begun to nurse, carefully place the kitten on one of her nipples.
During labour, the queen pants.
Once born, the queen breaks open the sac that the kitten was born in.
Licking the newborn clean.
Contented mum with babies.
Resumption of labour
Once the kitten is cleaned up, the queen will push it towards a nipple. Contractions will resume, and delivery of the next kitten will usually happen between ten minutes to an hour after delivery of the previous kitten.
All in all, it may take between 2 – 6 hours to deliver a litter of kittens.
Interrupted labour
There can be a significant gap between kitten deliveries which is known as interrupted labour. The queen will cease straining and attend to the kittens she has delivered by cleaning and nursing them. She may eat some food, if it is offered, and will appear to have completed labour. After a period of rest (interrupted labour may last as long as 24-36 hours), labour will resume, and the rest of the litter will be delivered. It would be worth speaking to your vet if no kittens have been delivered in four hours and you suspect your queen may have gone into interrupted labour.
When should I call a veterinarian?
There are many possible problems your queen may encounter during birth to cover in this article. A week before the due date, take the cat to the veterinarian for a final check-up and discuss the birth and potential problems. The vet will be able to advise what is ‘normal’ and what requires veterinary attention.
Gestation which lasts longer than 70 days.
First stage labour lasting longer than 12 hours.
Twenty minutes of intense labour and straining without producing a kitten.
Straining for ten minutes while a fetus or a fluid-filled bubble is visible in the birth canal.
Acute depression.
Fever (above 103°F).
Sudden discharge of bright, red blood from the vagina lasting longer than 10 minutes.
Thick, black, foul-smelling discharge from the vagina.
If the queen has chewed the cord close to the body, microabscesses can develop and spread bacteria into the bloodstream. Prophylactic administration of a long-acting antibiotic will be necessary.
How involved should you be?
The majority of cats are quite capable of giving birth without assistance, take a backseat and do not interfere unless a problem occurs.
Too much involvement can be stressful for the queen. Allow her to give birth to her kittens and care for them as newborns as undisturbed as possible.
How soon after giving birth can a cat go into heat?
It is possible for a cat to go into heat, mate, and become pregnant within 6-8 weeks of giving birth.
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THE WRITER'S TALE (the home run) - Russell T Davies & Benjamin Cook
Posted by Frank Collins on Friday, 26 September 2008 · 6 Comments
Lotus position. Focus. Right. After me. 'Russell T Davies Is Not God'...oh,oh,oh, calm, calm. That's right. 'Russell T Davies Is Not God'...keep going. Lovely, deep breaths. That's it. Ready? Clench those buttocks. Breathe. Mmmmmmm. And 'Russell T Davies Is An Egomaniac'...shush, shush...calm down. No, you're losing control..no....oh, crap....'RTD MUST GO'....'RTD MUST GO'....'HE IS A BASTARD'...fuck. We were doing so well. No...buttocks...clench...calm. Clench your bum for Davies...? Oh, no. That's tantamount to an invitation.
He's moody, sulky, bitter, unfeeling and domineering. He likes to primp his ego.
Not working, is it? The hordes of the internet are slagging seven kinds of shite out of Mr. Davies and now share a smug expression amongst their massed ranks. That 'we told you so' expression. The Anorak Zone forum (I mean, you are really asking for trouble calling yourself the Anorak Zone, aren't you) has been rubbing its collective hands together in glee over cross-patch Russell's attack on Outpost Gallifrey in The Writer's Tale. Basically, because they've got away with sticking their own knives into Nu-Who (I loathe that expression. I'll need a bit of correctional self-flagellation for using that on here). Silly sods. Before I regale you with the action replay of the last few chapters, let's get one thing straight. Russell is not God. He's moody, sulky, bitter, unfeeling and domineering. He likes to primp his ego. He's two faced. He is removed from reality (yes, Anorak Zone, I concede that one) but then he's been locked in the BBC's Doctor Who ivory tower for four years and The Writer's Tale isn't subtle in telling you he wants out. Wouldn't it send you doolalley?! And guess what? We'll (yes, that's me included) probably do all this again with Steven Moffat in about four years from now. Better start now. The Moff Must Go! Steven? Are...are you there?
C'est la vie. Que sera sera (yeah, I've gone all Doris Day on your asses and so has Russell by the looks of him)...
"We still cling to the notion of the writer-eccentric, which is a bloody nightmare on set."
Partners In Crime is done. The pages flood across to Ben Cook, Sarah Lancashire gets the Super Nanny role and Peter Fincham, the soon to be ex-controller of BBC1, has lost the plot with all the plans for the 2009 specials and is stuck in Queen-gate. Next thing is, he's cleared his desk and gone. Steven Moffat meets Jane Tranter and Jana Bennett and says 'yes!' to the Big Chair. Well, as long as Russell runs a damp cloth over it. Meanwhile, Ben asks Russell the more important questions about the different drafts that each script goes through and how Russell demarks between his roles as producer and writer:
"I do find it easy to divorce my two roles. With my producer's hat on (it's lemon), if a scene becomes impossible or expensive or is simply dropped on the day because they ran out of time, then I can score a great big line through it. Even if I loved it. I won't moan or bleat or feel any substantial regret. It's something that writers in this country need to be trained in, like in the US. We still cling to the notion of the writer-eccentric, which is a bloody nightmare on set. That sort of writer kicks up a fuss if a character is wearing a white shirt instead of a blue one. That sort of writer shouldn't be allowed near filming. Mind you, that writer-eccentric does allow you to get away with murder. Writers are allowed, professionally to be stroppy and weird and angry and demanding and petulant and oversexed and drunk. As long as your writing is good, that behaviour is sort of revered. Even expected. We're allowed to misbehave, because it's seen as creative, like it's part of the job. Rubbish!"
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much. One of the things fans have observed, and it's something Russell has admitted to, is his capacity for telling lies. OK, so it's not as outrageous as sniffing coke on set, but it's part and parcel of the outwardly facing Davies personna - the big, gay, eccentric Welsh bloke who says 'Marvellous' and 'Hurray' at the drop of hat with that cheeky grin and glint in his eye - and it does make you wonder how much of the above he actually gets away with. Note the 'we're allowed to misbehave' so he's obviously including himself there. I stopped reading at that point because I realised that the book I was eagerly devouring might well be a tissue of lies, a masterful manipulation of the said correspondence between him and Ben. "Don't believe every word, then", I muttered to myself.
Russell comments on the appointments of Steven and Piers, "Shall I lie and say that they're both complete bastards and Doctor Who is doomed?"
There's a tinge of sadness in the chapter Still Fighting It at the news that Howard Attfield having returned as Donna's dad, whose illness Russell has noted, is struggling gamely with his chemo to try and film Partners In Crime. By the 16th October 2007, Howard's illness has prompted his wife to call and declare, "I think we'd better stop". Whilst casting Bernard Cribbins as Wilf to take his place in the series, Russell is touting his Midnight script to replace the recently dropped Tom MacRae episode and has got the nod from Phil and Julie to complete it. Filming on Partners In Crime final TARDIS scene is made difficult by lots of Welsh drunks, the need to add some lines in for Jacqueline King and the question of extras for the scene of the Adipose levitating to their nursery ship. And enter Piers Wenger, the new exec that will replace Julie. Russell comments on the appointments of Steven and Piers, "Shall I lie and say that they're both complete bastards and Doctor Who is doomed?" ( I now fear I can't tell when Russell is telling fibs - is that like a comedy lie, or a proper lie or a double bluff?).
The chapter Steven Moffat's Thighs delves into timey-wimey parallel worlds stuff in a flurry of mail between him and Moffat dissecting Donna's life in the parallel world of the Library. Ben also asks about the dos and don'ts of using flashbacks and voiceovers:
"The techniques are too often being used to disguise the truth, the real story, the heart of the script. It's all pyrotechnics and glitter, fuelled by insecurity. That 'Where do you start the story? ' question can become so overwhelming that the writer goes mad, firing out shots all over the place. If I'm reading something new, especially by someone new, I want to know that they can write, I want to know how their characters talk, how the pace skips along, how the story hooks me, how passionate the writer is, how much I feel the whole thing. I'm not interested in admiring the artifice and thinking, oh, that's clever."
Well, that's buggered my career then. Ben also asks him about his pet hates that might drive other writers mad. He loathes dream sequences and cites Matt Jones' script for The Impossible Planet as an example where this didn't work for him at all. Jones wrote a sequence that took place inside Rose's head and Davies didn't believe it had any dramatic merit and threw it out. That and the television cliche of people storming out of rooms, never saying 'Bye' at the end of phone conversations, characters arranging to go out to the cinema or a restaurant and not actually properly making the arrangement. Davies ends that particular email, "I, of course, make no mistakes ever. Er..."
And that's your lot for today. The very last part of this review will be here at the weekend. Christ, I've got to end it somehow and review something else or I'll go mad. Even Merlin is beginning to appeal...till next time.
(Thanks to After Elton, Broadcast, bbc.co.uk, Eamon McCabe and The Guardian for photos, clips and screengrabs. A big mwwwwahhh! to you all.)
Filed under A BOOK AT BEDTIME
6 Responses to “THE WRITER'S TALE (the home run) - Russell T Davies & Benjamin Cook”
Vector-Victor says:
Ahem. I happen to be one of those
"silly sods" at the Anorak Zone.
Our problem with Outpost Gallifrey is not that it is pro-RTD, but that our members have gathered numerous instances of people on OG being bullied and harassed for expressing any opinions even mildly critical of RTD. Hence the amusing irony of RTD singling out that site for attack, and also launching into a Luddite tirade against Internet forums as well. The man makes a program that gets millions of viewers:why is he fixated on what a few hundred people on forums think? I suspect it's because Russell is a control freak who doesn't want to allow any criticism of his work.Hence his
attacks on the members of the gay community who were unhappy with
"Bob and Rose" as well.
You should know we also have several posters on the AZ who quite like Russell and his work, and there no bullying or harassing of them. Many of them actually prefer the AZ to OG, despite the former's "negative" reputation.
Hi, Vector-Victor.
I absolutely agree with you about the way a certain group of posters on OG leap on anyone who dares to express an anti-RTD opinion. I also agree that having a general swipe at internet forums, RTD is basically criticising people who also write very intelligent reviews about his work. I think the way Helen Raynor was treated on OG especially was shocking behaviour. And he's right to criticise them. He has no right however to tar every forum's posters with the same brush.
In fact, I've distanced myself from OG in recent months simply because the opportunities to put forward constructive arguments, often negative ones, is no longer an option on OG. As soon as they archived their Reviews section I knew it would get worse. And it did. And I know for a fact that a large contingent of OG members have now set up breakaway forums of their own. I certainly set this blog up as a result of it too.
Reviewing 'The Writer's Tale' certainly opened my eyes to many of RTD's faults, some of which I think he is very well aware of and some of which he buries his head in the sand about. It wasn't just 'Bob And Rose' where he had a go at the gay community. He ignored a great deal of criticism about 'Queer As Folk' too.
His attack on OG is an amusing irony from television's biggest control freak, I'll agree. By the way, don't take the 'silly sod' bit personally. And please keep visiting and commenting.
I've never actually visited Outpost Gallifrey's forums,but the general concensus would seem to be that the problems with "constructive
arguments" you describe are an issue. The other forums I visit-
AZ, Timelord, Digital Spy-don't let people get bullied for expressing
unpopular opinions about Doctor
Who.
I have seen rec.arts.drwho, however, and it's pretty awful-bascially people typing obscenties
at each other. If RTD wanted to make DW fandom look bad,he should have gone there.
The Helen Raynor thing-hmmm. On one hand I can understand how upsetting it would be for a writer to see her work ridiculed in such strong terms,but on the other hand, if you work in the
TV industry you are inevitably
going to get at least some negative reviews.
I like your blog,BTW-I thought your reviews of "Journey's End" and the SJAs were pretty good. I'll certainly keep visiting.
gatchamandave says:
I am intrigued to find out about these other forums, and will probably join them because like others have commented the attitude on OG these days is distinctly unhealthy.
I had nearly given up on the place after the broadcast of Doomsday due to the unpleasant air of anti-RTD attitudes at that time but it is undeniably the case that the result of that negativity � which was at the time excessive as far as I was concerned � was a backlash of vitriol and bullying that has now reached disgusting proportions. My memory may be cheating but I first became aware of it during season 1 of Torchwood � there were some very interesting discussions going on between what appeared to be professional TV writers and reviewers who were attempting to arrive at some idea of why, for them, the series wasn�t working. Yet every time a thread opened, often with a warning at the top that it was not interested in pro- or anti-RTD ranting but instead wanted to either discuss seriously - or gently derive humour from - the perceived shortcomings of TW the same louts would walk in and start picking fights. For the first time ever I found the phrase � You�re just a hater� deployed en masse.
Lately there has been a reprehensible example of bullying on OG when one poster on LiveJournal found that her blog comments had been reproduced in Stephen James Walker�s new Torchwood guide book with neither her permission sought to do so, nor even a heads up from Mr Walker that he intended to do so. The whole matter escalated quickly� partly through a head-to-head series of posts between various writers on the one hand who thought Mr Walker had done no wrong and various lawyers who attempted to point out that there was a possibility, slight or not-so slight, that he may have, but mostly due to a series of rather aggressive posts from a handful of pro-Walker posters who employed language � and in one case imagery � that could be construed as nothing other than profoundly sexist. Most reprehensible not only were these people not, publicly, called to account for such behaviour but at least two on-site moderators appeared to be condoning, occasionally joining in, with the nonsense. It was an affair that has led me to significantly downscale my involvement with the site and look around for other forums.
I suspect that as several OGers are given RTD�s book for Christmas and read the comments he makes that attitude will continue to grow � The Next Doctor already appears to be enshrined as a classic after two minutes of it have been broadcast, for example. Time, I think, to leave.
There have been a number of instances on OG, some of which you highlight in your comment, that have certainly made me question some of the moderation. Unfortunately, it hasn't got any better of the last year which is an incredible shame because I know that there are many very intelligent, articulate people on that forum who have some valid points to make about both Doctor Who and Torchwood.
Personally, the rot set in when most of Outpost Gallifrey, as it was, ended up archived whilst the forum remained solely as a method for airing views. Unfortunately, the forum isn't the best place for this. OG's Review section provided an alternate to the baying minority who simply hate anything Doctor Who post 2005. But, alas, that's gone.
Which is why this blog started up. Later I was then afforded a chance to post reviews on Behind The Sofa. BTS allows you to review any of the related series and spin-offs and then opens it up for debate. Yes, the debates can get hot under the collar but the reviewer is at least given space to post a review and reply via comments.
I recall the Stephen James Walker affair vividly and I did in fact privately correspond with Stephen about 'internet' etiquette and using quotes from web reviews. The way he was treated was actually quite deplorable and Live Journal reviewers did over react and again moderation seemed quite ineffectual there. Another nail in the OG coffin for me too.
I don't post as regularly as I used to on OG/DWF, tend to stick to the odd comment on BTS and now post on Outpost Wrinkly which is a spin off forum from a particular DWF thread that was set up as a haven for people who had a point of view where they wouldn't get shouted down. There are probably other fora where that's possible too but I know those who run OW and they are determined to keep their forum free of the baying 'haters' but also allow you to air your opinion, even if it is negative. You will always get a decent debate.
"Unfortunately, the forum isn't the best place for this. OG's Review section provided an alternate to the baying minority who simply hate anything Doctor Who post 2005."
Actually, that's too one sided a comment. It's not just the haters that I have a problem with but also those at the opposite end of the spectrum who can see absolutely no fault at all in substandard work. The rabidly pro-RTD mob who think he can walk on water.
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‘Low-rent absurdity’ case shows our frightening times
By Peter Stockland
MONTREAL - Paula Celani will be in a Montreal courtroom Nov. 1 fighting a fine for attending an illegal Roman Catholic Mass.
Canadians of all religious faiths — and even those who care only about protecting Charter freedoms — should cross their fingers that she wins.
Celani actually showed up to fight the case this week. Alas, three public sector “witnesses” expected to testify against her were no shows so the matter was delayed until the day after Halloween.
“I’m not sure why I’m the one who has to make the effort to come back when they’re the ones who didn’t show up,” Celani said after Tuesday’s brief hearing before Judge Jean-Pierre Bessette. “It doesn’t make sense, but then nothing about this does. It’s ridiculous.”
Ridiculous doesn’t begin to describe it. Frightening is a much better place to start for the events that began with an entirely uneventful gathering of a Catholic group on Oct. 4, 2009. Celani is the one in court only because her signature was on a $700 rental contract for the use of two rooms in a city-owned complex called La Maison du Brasseur in the borough of Lachine, just west of downtown Montreal.
About 100 people belonging to a lay Catholic association used the rooms to watch some inspirational videos and have a potluck lunch together. Oh, and horror of horrors, they sang songs and held a Mass behind closed doors. Then everyone went home. End of story. Or so it seemed.
Except that seven months later, in April 2010, Celani received a $144 ticket for having allowed the Mass to take place.
By so doing, she had broken a bylaw that prohibits “cultic” activity such as “praying, singing religious songs or conducting religious celebrations.” Under the same regulations, interestingly, renters are allowed to serve liquor provided they have the necessary permits. They are forbidden, however, from using propane tanks to cook inside the building. So, you can get hammered in La Maison du Brasseur. You just can’t blow the place up — or mention God.
What Celani and her group did not realize was that they were being “observed” by three employees of the borough of Lachine working at the complex that day. In fact, no one had warned Celani, or anyone else in the group, that a Catholic Mass is now a legally prohibited activity in parts of Quebec.
Still, the observers dutifully filed reports attesting that the law had been ravaged by prayer, song and thanksgiving.
One of the employees, Virginie Gagnon, complained some of the group were even guilty of “soliciting” by attempting to sell rosary beads within the Maison du Brasseur precincts.
(In fact, Celani admits, some younger members were selling rosaries to their friends to raise money for an aid project in Haiti. In the immortal words of Ebenezer Scrooge: “Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?”)
Elsewhere in the 15-page document that forms the evidentiary basis for the case against Celani, an employee/witness named Francois Vaillancourt notes that in one video a man on the screen was “speaking in Italian, I believe.” Italian, eh? Suspicious, that. No doubt some kind of code these Catholics use among themselves. Kind of like Latin for Mafioso.
Such low-rent absurdity can’t be allowed to obscure the very real, very serious, very frightening abuse of Charter-guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion here.
By what authority can municipal pipsqueaks in Montreal or Lachine or anywhere else for that matter, decide that “religious songs” are anathema while hip-hop music, to take one genre, is just ducky?
Under what mandate can they forbid a group of people from renting a room to quietly celebrate their faith, yet allow, say, a group of louts to rent space to set up a TV and collectively drink their faces off watching the Canadiens lose to the Leafs during the Stanley Cup playoffs? (Okay, bad example because it will never happen.)
And finally, how do they dare go against established Charter law that freedom of religion doesn’t just mean the freedom to keep one’s faith in one’s head? It means the freedom to live out that faith within the very wide ambit of reasonable behaviour in a free and democratic society.
With luck, these questions will all be answered Nov. 1 when Judge Bessette throws out the ticket and Celani walks out of the courtroom with a big smile on her face, having won one for freedom. Fingers crossed. If not, if the fine is upheld, we are in frightening times indeed.
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Either way, the two of them are pulling in more financial support than the others vying for the three at-large board seats, which will be chosen Nov. 3.
First-time candidate Janeen Bryant reports having raised $11,973. That includes $5,100 from Leadership for Educational Equity, a Washington-based nonprofit that promotes leadership among Teach For America alumni. Bryant was a Teach For America corps member in CMS and now serves as regional director for Leadership for Educational Equity.
Ericka Ellis-Stewart, who is seeking a second term after finishing first in 2011, reports having raised $9,036, similar to the $10,000 she had raised at this point in her last campaign.
Mary McCray, the current board chair and second-place finisher in 2011, tallies $4,475 for this year’s campaign, about half her total at this point in her previous run.
Amelia Stinson-Wesley, who has served an appointed stint on the school board and is making her first run for office, reports a total of $5,458.
Levester Flowers, a first-time board candidate, has raised $1,973. Angela Ambroise, making her first run for public office, and Larry Bumgarner, making his fourth bid for a board seat, don’t plan to raise or spend more than $1,000, which means they weren’t required to file the update.
The whole field combined has raised less than either Dan Clodfelter or Jennifer Roberts, the Charlotte mayoral candidates who face off in a Democratic runoff Tuesday.
You can see who big contributors are and check other details on any Mecklenburg candidate by going to www.meckboe.org and selecting “Candidate finance reports.”
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Police search for suspect in armed robbery at a Nanaimo Tim Hortons
Picture provided to Nanaimo RCMP captured from a surveillance camera of an armed robbery at the North Town Centre Tim Hortons Thursday night. Police says the suspect was wearing a mask that concealed the lower half of his face.
Nanaimo RCMP are looking for a suspect male after an armed robbery at the North Town Centre Mall Tim Hortons late Thursday night.
Police, including police dog services, responded around 11:30 p.m. of the armed robbery with a firearm but was unable to locate the suspect.
Investigators said no employees were injured during the robbery.
Tim Hortons’ staff and several witnesses reported seeing a male approach the till and demanded money from an employee.
The suspect appeared to have a handgun tucked into the waistband of his pants.
The suspect, who was wearing a mask that concealed the lower half of his face, took an undisclosed amount of cash and ran out the front door.
He was last seen running towards the Marks Work Warehouse at the intersection of Uplands Drive and Oliver Road.
Police describe the suspect as a white male, about 5’10” to 6’0″ tall with a slim build.
The suspect wore dark clothing with a black hoodie with tan trim, black gloves, baggy pants and dark skater shoes, with white trim along the base.
Investigators are still trying to determine if a black sedan style vehicle that was spotted circling the parking lot several times prior to the suspect entering the business is linked to the robbery.
Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to call Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345 or Crime Stoppers.
Police believe break-and-enter, fatal shooting in Vernon area are linked
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Gallagher in new racism row
Podcast clash with Peter Serafinowicz
American comic Gallagher has become embroiled in a bizarre row with Peter Serafinowicz over immigration.
The pair clashed angrily on this week Probably Science podcast, after the watermelon-smashing stand-up made odd assertions about Mexicans who come to the US.
In a heated debate, he claimed that only short Mexicans came across the border, while tall ones stayed home and ‘have successful television shows’.
Gallagher – who ran for Governor of California against Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003 – was quizzed on his views after proposing a dam across Southern California to create a fertile plain so Mexicans ‘wouldn’t need’ to come to the US.
Asked what he thought of Mexicans, the 66-year-old replied: ‘Well, we’ve got enough. When you say Mexicans do you mean the Mexicans that I see on TV that are tall and pretty and handsome, or the little short ones that come to the door and want to work in the back yard?’
He claimed Mexico had two cultures, ‘the tall Spanish immigrants who came over from Spain and then the descendants of the Indians [indigenous people] who want to cut your heart out and show it to the sun god. It’s obvious that the cultures don’t mix – that’s why they come up here for opportunity.’
He insisted, ‘I’m just reflecting what I see. It’s not me – it’s that culture. Their culture is prejudicial, not ours.’
When asked what his immigration policy would be based on, he said: ‘On height, we have enough short ones.’
Pocast co-host Matt Kirshen joked that border authorities would have to install theme-park style signs saying: ‘You must be this tall to enter the US.’
However things became more pointed when Serafinowicz, the other guest on the podcast, asked bliuntly: ‘What are you talking about?’
‘I’m saying the immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, San Salvador are all the same: Short, under 5ft 2in,’ Gallagher replied.
Serafinowicz challenged him: ‘What’s your point though? What’s your fucking point, man?’
‘You asked me if we have too many Mexicans, and I told you we have too many short ones. They are already 50 per cent. How can you be worried about a minority when they are in the majority? You are in the minority now. Relax.
He then asked Serafinowicz: ‘Where do you live?
‘I live in London... and I’m 6ft 4in.’
‘Then you don’t get to talk about American politics.’
‘I get to talk about whatever the fuck I want, actually,’ he hit back. ‘I can talk about anything. You don’t have to agree with it. I just think what you’re saying sounds fucking racist.’
‘Well, there are races in Mexico. There are Aztec, Incas and the European Spanish,’ Gallagher added.
Kirshen told him: ‘Wanting one lot to come into the country and not the other is pretty much the definition of racist.’
A few seconds later Serafinowicz challenged Gallagher again: ‘I don’t like what you were saying there about Mexican people, you know?
‘Well, freedom of speech exists in America, not in England because you guys had a king,’ Gallagher added.
‘Listen man, you can say whatever you want,’ Serafinowicz added.
‘Then why don’t you let me say it. Why are you giving me your opinion?’ My point is scientifically, I’ve done an experiment, and I know that only the short people come to America and tall people stay there and have successful television shows.’
‘I think your point was that you don’t like a certain type of Mexican people. That was your point, I think,’ Serafinowicz concluded.
It is not the first time Gallagher has sparked an argument on a podcast. In 2011 he walked out on Marc Maron’s WTF, after the host suggested his guest’s comedy was racist and homophobic.
During that interview Gallager said: ‘Can I pick on Arabs? ... They're the enemy’, said he couldn’t tell lesbian jokes in Boston because of liberal topics and stated: ‘There's no blacks in my audience. Not one.’
Click here to hear the Probably Science podcast, which also features regular hosts Andy Wood and Brooks Wheelan. The discussions about Mexicans kicks off about 39 minutes in.
According to the 2010 census, 16.7 per cent of Americans are of Hispanic or Latino origin, but the figure rises to 38 per cent in California.
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In conversation with:
Ian Moston, Executive Director of Finance and Information, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
As from 1 April 2017 Group CFO for Salford Royal and Pennine Acute Hospitals Trusts
What does your role involve?
Salford Royal is a CQQ rated ‘Outstanding’ integrated provider of hospital, community, primary care and as of 1 July 2016, adult social care services. We employ over 7,000 people who provide a comprehensive range of local services to the City of Salford, as well as specialist services to Greater Manchester, the North West of England and beyond.
For the last 15 months Salford Royal has been providing management support to Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and has now put in place governance arrangements to manage both organisations through a group structure, with four care organisations established underneath to manage the £1.3bn of services delivered across five main sites.
As Group Chief Financial Officer I am responsible for designing and overseeing the financial strategy and policies that ensure the statutory financial duties of the group are met and that it is able to deliver the investment needed to achieve its strategic objectives. I am also responsible for all aspects of financial governance, financial assurance and financial control and am the executive lead for a range of other corporate functions including procurement, contracting and informatics.
Like all board directors I also have collective responsibility for the wider corporate agenda for quality, innovation and productivity improvement to support the delivery of high quality care for patients. It is this wider responsibility and knowing that what you do every day makes a real difference to the lives of people in our local communities that makes a finance job in the NHS so rewarding.
What lessons have you learned which will help others working on the health and social care integration agenda?
Bringing two separate systems (health and council) together into the Integrated Care Organisation was never going to be easy or quick when you consider these are systems that have operated for such a long time under different governance arrangements and with different processes. It requires a high degree of trust and shared ownership of the risks it generates. Yet the strong and well established relationships between organisations within Salford definitely made this much easier to manage.
The integration has thrown up a number of technical issues, particularly around VAT and pensions, which have the potential to be a barrier to integration and CIPFA needs to be a vocal and key voice in finding solutions to these.
Most importantly however there is a human element to the integration and it’s important not to underestimate the scale of organisational development input needed. The first nine months in Salford have been all about safe landing and bringing together of the two parts. The big test now is to drive the innovation and service changes out of integration that deliver the improved service to patients and carers and the improved productivity from the budgets.
While everyone sees integration as the only game in town, there is little if any evidence of the benefits achieved. Thee wider system needs the vanguard sites like Salford to be able to demonstrate these benefits, to give others the confidence to work round the difficulties and take the risks, because the prize is big enough.
What are your proudest professional moments?
Over a 27 year career so far in NHS finance I’ve been fortunate enough to have been involved with a number of hugely exciting and challenging transactions and programmes. When I started in the NHS many of the people at a similar level to me working in the private sector judged the public sector old fashioned and simple.
Those people are now looking enviously at my career, which has included delivering more than £300m of capital build, taking to market and establishing one of the only patient facing public private joint ventures in the service, and negotiating the merger and acquisition of a number of organisations. Today I help lead a £1.3bn turnover organisation and have been part of the innovation that has established groups and integrated care organisations with the potential to change services for patients for the new few decades.
While all of these have been immensely satisfying, my proudest moments however are reserved for watching talented people I’ve nurtured, either directly in teams and departments I’ve led, or those that I’ve coached and mentored, do more amazing things than I could ever dream of doing.
How important is a professional finance qualification and continued development?
It’s essential. In the first instance it’s the entry ticket to the career. It gives you the technical knowledge to be able to work in the profession and the critical thinking and decision making skills to be able to contribute to a department, team or organisation’s success. Most importantly however the reason accountancy is a profession is that it’s not binary, wrong or right. It requires judgement, and the qualification and the continued development allows you to operate in the space between the two and navigate this safely. Over a career most accountants will be tested to be brave and do the right thing and it’s the professional status that protects and serves as a guide.
What do you wish you had known when starting out on your career?
If at the start I could have had three of the pearls of wisdom I’ve gathered, I think I would have had the ones that said:
No one looks after you like you. You have to be proactive and take personal responsibility for your career. Actively seek out the opportunities and be confident enough to take on the seemingly challenging ones. Most of us get doubts but this is often our brains playing tricks; all the evidence in our career to date shows we shouldn’t doubt ourselves.
Constantly strive for distance and pace of travel in everything you do. It doesn’t matter what you do differently, only that you don’t stand still. Teams that don’t innovate and push boundaries can be the best around today but will look old fashioned by tomorrow if they don’t evolve.
As finance professionals, especially working in public services, we have a responsibility to be moral guardians as well. The decisions we make around resources have a direct impact on the people we provide services to. Yes, we have to manage within the resources we have, but we have to deliver services people have the right to expect. If we can’t then we have the wrong service solution and need to find a different one.
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#DCStatehood would set an awful precedent
Can you imagine that Kansas City MO and Kansas City KS want to become states?
Maryland and Virginia allowed portions of their respective states to be used for our nation's Seat of Government. Neither, that land nor the citizens of their respective states ceased to belong to their respective states.
All that means is that the city(s) of Washington, DC/MD and Washington, DC/VA should have two separate City Governments. One for the Maryland 1/2 and one for the Virginia 1/2 of Washington DC.
The fact that people mistakenly assumed that (and treated) accordingly that the states forfeit that land and allowed our nation's government to suppress the voice of so many citizens for so long can easily be solved:
Whichever 1/2 of DC that does not presently have a city government, will go about electing their government officers, or simply dividing up as equally as proportional to population within the respective states as possible, the city personnel and equipment.
The citizens in their respective states will participate in the Congressional elections as they should have been doing all along. This certainly will increase the number of representatives each state has in Congress.
Wow, that was simple.
raise the wage
Death by #RaiseTheWage #MinimumWage
#SupplyAndDemand should be the rule when it comes to setting the cost of labor. That is what the Uniform Code of Naturalization and Immigration is supposed to accomplish.
When the government artificially establishes a minimum wage, businesses simply add that cost to the products and services they sell/provide. Have you ever wondered why a loaf of bread and gallon of milk cost so much more today than they did 75 years earlier?
The average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour.
A loaf of bread: 7 cents [3.14 loaves of bread/hour]
Seems that with The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the U.S. minimum wage was initially set at $0.25 per hour
The average US wage in 2019 averages $7.25 dollars per hour.
Bread priced at $2.50 in 2019 [2.09 loaves of bread/hour]
Seems as though we get less for our money as the minimum wage increases.
Immigration and Naturalization, supposedly controlled by Congress, is supposed to only allow immigrants into these united States to increase the number of jobs when our employment rate is high, by encouraging people with valid businesses and the resources to finance its startup or relocation to come in. When businesses legitimately need workers to fill empty jobs; Congress then sends out requests to friendly countries for those with the skills needed for those jobs. in this way, the ration of jobs to citizens to work them always favors the citizen.
When government allows a glut of people from other countries to enter these united States legally or worse yet, illegally, the supply of labor goes sky-high and the people coming over the borders (generally willing to work rock-bottom wages) allow businesses to lay off and fire those they pay higher wages.
When the government artificially inflates the the wage-cost to businesses the businesses actually increase the cost of their products and services in a never-ending battle to maintain profits -- all the while, the works keep getting screwed over.
Hey VIRGINA; Sic semper tyrannis youself
Sic Semper Tyrannis: Thus ever unto tyrants
According to the Virginia State Motto; every politician who violates either The Constitution for the United States of America and/or The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia should be put to death. The State-Seal shows a soldier standing over a Tyrant with blood oozing from a wound over the heart. Truly a fitting end to tyrants and despots.
Question is: How guilty are politicians in the State of Virginia regarding the charges of Tyranny?
Let's go with just three simple examples of constitutional violations:
Anti-gun laws
Anti-sleeping laws
Anti-Constitution in the courts in front of juries laws and court rules
All of these are prohibited by The unanimous Declaration of the united States of America and The Constitution for the United States of America.
From The Declaration:
"declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever"
"combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation"
From The US Constitution:
Article 6, "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." This demands all government officers in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial to swear oath/affirmation to support the US Constitution.
Amendment 9: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Prohibits anti-sleeping laws.
Amendment 2: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Prohibits absolutely any law that regulates or restricts who can own any type or style of weapon.
It, I suppose it too bad that the people of Virginia lost sight of that motto. But, probably for the better. Especially since humans tend to immortalize and elevate to the status of "god" even those politicians they hate the most -- particularly if those politicians were #assassinated.
#Emoluments & @REALDONALDTRUMP
What The Constitution for the United States of America really tells us about emoluments.
From The Constitution for the United States of America, Article 1, Section 9, it states; "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."
From Article 2, Section 1, it states "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them."
Perhaps I missed it, but did Congress authorize a recent President, in 2009, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize from Norway? If Congress did not authorize it, this certainly could have been a violation.
A 1785 common-use dictionary defines "Emolument. Profit; advantage."
According to Article 2, this would not apply to any foreign State or possession of these united States, but only to any of the Domestic States that is a member of these united States of America. With respect to foreign leaders staying in one of Mr. Trump's hotels; the courts properly ruled.
However, dealing also with Article 1 applies to all government officers, within and for these united States of America. With respect to Article 1, any foreign leaders staying in one of Mr. Trump's hotels; the courts incorrectly ruled. When foreign leader stay at a hotel, other people from that country are more likely to try to stay at that hotel, because it lends more credibility, publicity, and more financial receipts/profits. This would be the same as if I owned a Mom & Pop hotel and a famous actor, athlete, etc. stayed there. More people are likely to book reservation and stay, simply because someone famous also did. Thus the advantage gained.
UK AMBASSADOR vs. inept White house
If inept relates to job skill and knowledge; what's the conflict?
If inept; properly defined as "having or showing no skill; clumsy" is what #UKambassador meant by an inept White House; he must feel that truth is something to be ashamed about.
Mr. Trump, as President of "The United States of America" demonstrates a clumsy manor about his skill (rather lack thereof) regarding his constitutional duties of office. Thus, inept.
@REALDONALDTRUMP Mr. Trump should (as I find myself trying to do with my own advice) heed his own advice. "An executive is only as good as his gatekeepers" Mr. Trump, Apprentice show.
His gatekeepers include the Secret Service officers around the White House who do not allow or pass information along to Mr. Trump that would have helped him do a much better job as President of "The United States of America". Additionally, other gatekeepers include the advisers of whom he surrounds himself. His "constitutional" adviser is as incompetent and lacking when it comes to The Constitution for the United States of America, as is the entire Supreme Court of "The United States of America". Case in point, the #census.
See previous posts about the unconstitutional census.
Candace Owens @RealCandaceO
A Pro-Trump supporter?
If you are a pro-Trump supporter; and you would like to see and help him fulfill most of his Constitutional Campaign Promises in a very big and peaceable manner, get word to Mr. Trump, President of "The United States of America" concerning these Constitutional Executive Orders that include the best ways to carry them out. Constitutional Executive Orders.
Corporate CENSORSHIP?
Do the humans who own #Facebook #Google #Twitter exercise their right to sway politics to their favor, or do they violate their contracts with their users?
I admit that I have not read absolutely every word of every social-media, computer-program policy, terms of use, etc. After the first sever thorough reads of all attachments and links, etc. they all began looking like carbon-copies of each other.
Face it Mr. Trump; @REALDONALDTRUMP the "social media" outlets fall under the same Constitutional protections of Freedom of the Press as does any newspaper, TV, radio, etc. publication or individual. With all your money and wealthy-friends among your contact, why do you not create a truly unbiased impartial social media operation that allows people to equally gripe about you as well as those who offer their praise and worship. Could you handle that, or would you then become as those you disfavor and begin regulating those who do not fall in line with your political agenda?
Personally, I do not like people or corporations that present themselves as impartial and unbiased all-the-while censoring and silencing the voices of those who oppose the outlet's personal or corporate political agenda. However much I do not personally like it, I must defend their right to use their outlets to advance their political and/or religious agenda -- so long as it is in accord with the terms of the contracts they present to their users.
The Legislative #Scotus
Legislating from the Bench is nothing new to The Supreme Court of "The United States of America".
@SCOTUS Converted the Act if UnAffordable Care into a Tax. Now they look to rewriting our nation's Immigration and Naturalization Laws/Code? This should not surprise anyone. After all, SCOTUS should have heavily penalized all parties (President, lower-court judges and lawyers) responsible for allowing such a frivolous case to waste taxpayer dollars.
Our governments have gotten so far out of our present control, we must RE-EDUCATE ourselves with respect to how we are supposed to properly control our government's powers. That is the purpose of this website CleanHonestGov.com.
#welfare recipients decline?
Welfare is still welfare even when you change to class or recipient
It does not matter if you decrease one class of recipients (the poor) and double-down the dollar-amount given to fewer richer people as political payola. #CorporateWelfare is just as bad as poverty welfare. It still creates unjust dependence on other people's money. It also is a power The Constitution for the United States of America does not grant, and should be entirely stopped.
@REALDONALDTRUMP All animals, humans included, tend to favor the path of least resistance. Only when a person desires, or circumstances force them to fend for themselves - only then does the individual fend for themselves - or perish. End all government-given welfare individuals businesses, and countries.
unconstitutional census
A census by any other name, is still an unconstitutional census
As #epochtimes quotes "Knowing the information is vital to formulating sound public policy. President Donald Trump"
@REALDONALDTRUMP The is absolutely no constitutional reason for you to know how many of any particular class of people are in these united States of America. Not for taxation, because Amendment 16 prohibits such use. Not for any other purpose because Equality under the Law also prohibits such use as every government project, program, and law must equally apply and be available to everyone. That is why nearly every government project, program, law, agency, department, and office within our governments violate The Constitution for the United States of America and should be discontinued.
What the President, Congress, and Supreme Court need to bring all of their constitutional violation up to date requires is a string of Article 5 Constitutional Amendments, the entirety of which the people will not authorize. That is why they never even tried.
Gender Identity & Sports
#Equality in sports
Seems there is confusion in the schools. Men and women, boys and girls are supposed to be treated equally. When it comes to sports, there should be absolutely no male or female teams -- just a team (soccer, football, baseball, basketball, etc.) Then, only the best athlete, whether male or female gets selected for that team.
This way it will not matter whether or not the athlete was born male but identifies female or the other way around.
When we start seeing and treating each other as equals, regardless of each other's choices, we begin protecting each other's rights.
In the workplace, most pay should not be based on hourly compensation but piece- work. Whether male, female, trans, bi, etc; whoever produces an established number of units work gets paid a specified dollar-value.
enforcing laws
The #Supreme Law of the Land
The most important thing about any law is not its #enforcement but that it is constitutionally authorized. Only then is its enforcement important -- but only if it is #equally enforced on friend and foe alike.
Worst aspects about most laws have two faces:
They violate The Supreme Law of the Land
They are randomly and selectively enforced even within the same police jurisdiction among different officers, by the same officer at different times, etc.
With absolutely every ticket, and trial of a crime, the Law is supposed to be tried FIRST to determine if it violates the Supreme Law of the Land. If it does,
it must be amended or repealed.
the accused must be set free, because they have not committed any crime; as that law is the criminal act by the legislators who passed it.
If a jury determines that the law is in fact constitutionally authorized, only then can the accused person be brought to trial to try the Facts; which determines if in fact the accused person violated that constitutional law.
#AG needs to learn to read
Attorney General Barr claims there is a legal path to add #citizenship question to the 2020 #census
There is Mr. Barr.
If you actually read the Constitution, I'll bet you swore oath to defend; that process would include all of the following and in this order:
Either get Congress or the States to call a Constitutional Convention to ACTUALLY AMEND INTO THE US CONSTITUTION the authority to actually conduct a census. ---Because, at present, a census is unconstitutional.
Then, determine the constitutional purpose for that census
Then, determine what questions are required to fill that purpose
No other questions can lawfully be asked.
We, the governed people of these united States of America should be terrified that our #President and US Supreme Court judges act as though they have NEVER READ The Constitution for the United States of America
panel on #unalienable #rights
#WhiteHouse uses #Religion to Review Human Rights
In short, this is an unlawful way to undermine our nation's Founding Charter, The unanimous Declaration of the united States of America. To redefine unalienable rights, this will require ABSOLUTELY EVERY STATE IN THE union to ratify it.
It is an unconstitutional way for government to STEAL more unjust powers by dictating to us what rights we may exercise.
This unconstitutional commission, according to some, will include about 10 members ALL FROM RELIGIONS of various flavors. The leader having long relationships with the Vatican.
Nuff Said.
#Climate and its changes
How Earth's general climate works to force planet-wide animal and human migrations
An enclosed spinning sphere, such as Earth....
O.K. An explanation before I continue.
Earth is an enclosed sphere. The enclosure is called gravity (at least for this post). In other posts, that enclosure might include the O-Zone, etc.
The Gravity enclosure tends to keep Earth in a relatively "smooth" sphere (at least so as we are taught). The faster a sphere spins with a reasonably flexible enclosure, the more of its fluid mass migrates to the outer circumference. Thus centrifugal force. The longer this happens the flatter the Earth tends to get.
As Earth warms from NATURAL causes and migrations throughout our Solar System, the Galaxy, and the Universe, we approach other space areas that heat and cool our Earth. Science has already proved all this, but they do not yet see it.
Earth contains life at present that thrives in -80 degree temperatures and in above +150 degree temperatures. Temperature/Climate changes (be they cooler or warmer) favor the one and not the other. It causes one to grow bigger and more populous. Thus, survival of the fittest.
As Earth naturally warms, the Polar Ice Caps melt, uncovering land mass. As the ice melts, the liquids now migrate towards the Equator, flooding equatorial land masses, exposing polar land masses.
The Equator life that is able to migrate (including humans) move towards the Poles. Massive wars escalate because the comfortable land-mass is small. Once most of the human population exterminated themselves via war; a "global" peace is reached for a period of time.
As millennia pass along, the poles begin icing up again and force warmer-life to once again migrate towards the equator. As the oceans begin freezing, mobile-life walks across the oceans as if it were land.
And thus the cycles of Earth's Climate. If we want to survive without the massive population-control wars, we should build massive floating cities with Iceberg technology. That is; where about 3/4 of these cities are underwater and 1/4 or so above water. Just a thought. We have the knowledge, skill and resources.
#UNCOMFORTABLE, #barista, #police
People feeling uncomfortable around police
When the people begin feeling uncomfortable around police who generally are well protected against criminal prosecutions is a symptom of how corrupt our governments have become.
Speaking from personal experience and having questioned many police (Secret Service, Metropolitan, Park, Sheriffs, Deputies, State, as well as Military) I have not yet found one who will risk his job to honestly defend The Constitution for the United States of America against enemies Foreign and Domestic.
To be totally correct and honest:
I have not talked with every officer in every political jurisdiction
Of the hundreds with whom I have conversed and question; I have not found one honorable one among them --- though only a couple came really close.
My questions are really simple. The first one almost always gets the expected "correct" response. The second and/or third have always proved that the officer lied on the first and does not care about our rights so long as they get their pay check.
Question One: If you were given an order to obey or a law to enforce that violates The Constitution for the United States of America, which details The Supreme Law of the Land, will you obey the order and.or enforce the law?
Unanimously, the response is "No." They claim they would not enforce or obey anything that violates the US Constitution.
Double-Check Question/s: If you were guarding a public/government building and saw someone you did not know and could not prove they were a government official coming into public building; would you arrest them?
Unanimously, the response is "Yes." This is evidence that they lied to the previous question.
Other similar question work to also prove a lie to the first.
Evidence of the lie come with the provable fact that The constitution for the United States of America has not yet been lawfully amended in accord with Article 5 to alter the content and meaning of Amendment 2, and Article 6.
If we the people no longer respect the Constitution and do not enforce its RULE OF LAW upon our politicians -- they have and will continue to corrupt our nation and government.
We are beginning to resemble Hitler's regime where people began fearing their police.
One United States Secret Service Officer put his possession in these words:
It is my job to obey the orders given to me and to enforce the laws put before me; and let the courts settle it our." Frank
In other words Frank told me that he does not give a damn about our rights or the Constitution, so long as he gets paid. He does not care how long or how much it costs a person to fight his constitutional violations in court, so long as he gets paid.
That, unfortunately, is the common attitude among far too many people in uniform (police and military), as well as, especially the lower-level judges and legislators.
This will only improve in our favor when WE THE PEOPLE begin holding our government employees feet to the fire of THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND (form the cities and towns to our nation's government).
If Ignorance of the Law is no excuse for us when violating a government law -- A government employee's Ignorance of the Supreme Law of the Land is #TREASONOUS; so says The Constitution for the United States of America and The unanimous Declaration of the united States of America.
#Reparations
Who owes what to whom?
Potential solution:
Only those who were unjustly held in slave labor would be subject to reparations -- but only against those specific individuals who unjustly held them in slavery.
It unjustly rewards those who did not suffer the unjust slavery and unjustly punishes those who did not unjustly hold anyone in slavery.
Additionally, any person claiming reparations who wants to remain in these united States of America becomes ineligible because they most likely would never have been in these united States of America had ancestors not been enslaved here; which means that the person seeking reparations has benefited by being a united States citizen and has already been #compensated.
Anyone who receives reparation must then best #deported to the country of origin.
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#Transportation Department relaxes #Trucker Drive-Time
The Transportation Department has no legislative authority. Its #regulations must be viewed solely as suggestions -- not as enforceable law.
In order for those regulations to be nationally enforceable law, The Constitution for the United States of America, must authorize Congress to legislate how long a person can drive at one time. We know this from Article 6, as well as Amendments 9 &10 & 14.
Those #drivetime laws must then apply to non-commercial motorist in order to qualify for equal protection under the law.
#Blood from #unconscious drivers
SCOTUS authorizes Amendment 4 Violation
It does not surprise me that the #SCOTUS ruled that un-warranted search and seizure of an accident victims blood does not violate Amendment 4; especially when you take into account that the US Constitution does not allow a Census to be taken, but the SCOTUS rules favorably for the unconstitutional census anyhow.
Taking anything from the conscious or unconscious accident victim without a warrant violates Amendments 4, and 5.
It violates Amendment 4 because it demands a warrant to search and or seize any thing or person. If the person is unconscious or conscious and gets to the hospital and needs a blood sample for treatment, this is a different animal. That treatment may need to know what is in the blood system (drugs, alcohol, medicines, etc.) At which time, the police, prosecutors, courts need to issue a warrant to get that information from the hospital.
It violates Amendment 5 because it forces a person to be a witness against themselves.
Felons to pay #restitution
Florida admits that their prison system failed
The entire purpose behind The Constitution for the United States of America, Amendment 13 to to have the duly convicted person pay restitution for their crimes.
Restitution to the injured person for the value of the injured persons and/or damaged property
Restitution to the injured society for the criminal act against human rights generally
When Amendment 13 is properly applied by honest government officers, the prison system totally pays its own way. Not one cent comes from taxpayers.
Gender pronouning
The crime of incorrect #genderpronoun
This comes as the result of my picking up trash in Lafayette Square, Park in Washington DC.
I found a name tag. The noun on the tag states, "Emma".
Nothing unusual about that. It would have gone unnoticed and quickly discarded as trash someone left on the ground.
What caught my eye was what was written below the name. The pronouns "She/her"..
Even this might not have been terribly noticeable, had it not been for several days earlier that someone told me that some state passed a law that made it a crime to "miss-pronoun a person".
The country/nation that is properly identified as the united States of America got way off-track early in our life; about 1785 or so.
This is similar to #hatecrimes. Tell me, how many crimes are committed against other people out of love?
Every real crime against another person or their property deals with some level of dislike/hate.
Government Honesty
If we expect our government officers to be honest with us -- we must protect the sovereignty of OUR unified vote as a body of Registered Voters.
More than a decade before the #demolition of the #TwinTowers, various science channels and programs documented the deliberate demolition of tall buildings. They also covered the topic of how precise the timing of the explosion must be to get the buildings to drop in their foundation's footprint.
The slightest of miscalculations can destroy neighboring buildings.
My very first thought when I finally saw the video of the Twin Tower's demolition was that "this was a deliberately planned demolition". A thought solely based on the experts from years prior, thanks to science and salvage shows.
When we allow our government officials -- our employees -- to keep secrets from us for any longer than one election cycle, we doom ourselves to massive corruptions and cover-ups of treasonous prosecutions. The value of which disappears when the "truth" of such events gets declassified -- ONLY AFTER -- the guilty parties have long since died.
#realDonaldTrump
Mr. Trump: Pull up your Big-Boy shorts. You are President of "The United States of America". Act like it! CleanHonestGov.com can help you improve these united States of America, eliminating your 3-year headaches with #ConstitutionalExecutiveOrders.
the #unPRESIDENTIAL #president Trump
Is President Trump unpresidential?
Mr. Trump is President of "The United States of America".
He certainly doe snot act like any of our recent known presidents. For the most part, that is the best thing he has going for him. I personally he that he is neither better nor worse than other presidents.
In one regard, Mr. Trump is fully equal to all prior presidents. He is as fully ignorant about the scope of the powers the Office of President of "The United States of America" wields. Make that two ways he's as "presidential" as other presidents. He does not know how to select people constitutionally knowledgeable to help him do a better job.
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Willimantic sex offender sentenced to 14 years in prison
By David Owens
Devin Quirk, 39, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for trying to sexually assault a preteen girl. (Connecticut state police)
A sex offender on parole for previous crimes against children was sentenced this week to 14 years in prison for new crimes.
Devin Quirk, 39, had previously pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree sexual assault of a child younger than 13 and attempt to promote prostitution. He has previous convictions for possession of child pornography and second-degree sexual assault of a minor.
State police were investigating Quirk, who also went by Devon, for his involvement in a business to to traffic underage girls and promote them in prostitution. During that investigation, police learned he tried to obtain a date rape drug to give to a preteen girl.
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Quirk pleaded guilty under the terms of an agreement negotiated by his lawyer, Andrew O’Shea, and prosecutor Robin Krawczyk.
At his sentencing this week, Krawczyk told Hartford Superior Court Judge Laura F. Baldini that Quirk had agreed to a long prison sentence, yet she was still concerned it was not enough. Quirk keeps committing crimes, she said, and efforts to discourage the conduct and rehabilitate him have failed so far.
“There doesn’t seem to be a way to protect society, other than putting him in prison,” Krawczyk said, adding that Quirk is a high risk to offend again. “I hope we can just house him until he’s old enough to not re-offend.”
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O’Shea said that Quirk wants to engage in treatment.
Baldini agreed that Quirk was looking at a long sentence, but said it was “well deserved.”
She noted he had a difficult childhood and endured trauma, but also told him that did not give him the right to inflict trauma on others.
The judge then sentenced Quick to 25 years in prison, suspended after he serves 14 years, and 20 years of probation.
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Applicability. This Data Protection Exhibit (“DP Exhibit”) forms part of the Agreement between Customer and CenturyLink and is applicable to the provision of certain CenturyLink Services. In the event of a conflict between the Agreement, the applicable Services Exhibit(s) and this DP Exhibit, the terms of this DP Exhibit shall control.
Definitions. In this DP Exhibit, the following definitions apply:
“Data Controller” “Data Processor” “Data Subjects” “Personal Data” and “Personal Data Breach” shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the GDPR.
“Data Protection Laws” means the provisions of applicable laws regulating the use and processing of data relating to persons, as may be defined in such provisions, including a) prior to 25 May 2018, the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, b) after 25 May 2018 the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679) (“GDPR”), c) the Electronic Communications Data Protection Directive 2002/58/EC, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and d) all other applicable laws and regulations relating to processing of personal data.
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Compliance with Data Protection Laws.
CenturyLink and Customer agree that, Customer is an independent Data Controller with respect to the processing of Personal Data which is necessary for the operation of the Services, and CenturyLink is an independent Data Controller with respect to the processing of billing, utilisation, usage patterns/counts/statistics, traffic data and other Customer account related information (e.g. name, address, email address)to the extent it is Personal Data, which is necessary for CenturyLink’s performance of its obligations under the Agreement and the applicable Services Exhibit(s), or with respect to any Personal Data held for general business purposes.
CenturyLink and Customer shall each comply at all times with its obligations under Data Protection Laws in respect of any Personal Data processed by it under the Agreement.
CenturyLink acknowledges that it is a Data Processor on behalf of the Customer for the purposes of providing Services and performing its related obligations (including incident resolution, support or consultancy services). The subject matter, duration and nature of the processing, the types of Personal Data and applicable Data Subjects are described in the applicable Services Exhibit(s).
In so far as CenturyLink processes Personal Data on behalf of Customer as a Data Processor, CenturyLink will (and will procure that CenturyLink affiliates will):
Only process Personal Data in accordance with the Customer’s documented instructions, including as set out in the Agreement and this DP Exhibit and ensure that CenturyLink personnel process Personal Data only on such instructions of the Customer, unless processing is required by EU or member state law to which CenturyLink are subject, in which case CenturyLink shall, to the extent permitted by such law, inform Customer of that legal requirement before processing that Personal Data;
Restrict the disclosure and processing of Personal Data to the extent necessary to provide the Services, or as otherwise permitted under the Agreement and this DP Exhibit, or by Customer in writing, and only disclose Personal Data on a need to know basis in connection with the Services to those who have committed themselves to confidentiality, or as required by applicable law;
Taking into account the state of the art, costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, implement and maintain appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, and against all other unlawful forms of processing and ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk presented by the processing;
Ensure that only those personnel who need to have access to Personal Data are granted access to it, and that such access is granted only for the proper provision of the Services; and
If and to the extent CenturyLink retains a copy of any Personal Data, not retain that Personal Data for longer than is necessary to perform the Services and at Customer’s option, securely destroy or return such Personal Data, except where required to retain the Personal Data by law or regulation. The parties agree that CenturyLink shall not actively process such Personal Data and shall be bound by the provisions of this DP Exhibit in respect of any such retained Personal Data. CenturyLink shall delete such data promptly after it ceases to be obliged to retain it and shall only process it to the extent required to comply with applicable laws.
Sub-Processing.
The Customer generally authorises CenturyLink to appoint sub-processors in accordance with any restrictions in this DP Exhibit and the Agreement.
Prior to disclosing any Personal Data to any sub-processor, CenturyLink shall ensure that it has undertaken appropriate due diligence in respect of such sub-processor, and shall ensure the sub-processor enters into a written agreement on terms which provide that the sub-processor has equivalent obligations to those set out in this DP Exhibit. CenturyLink shall remain fully liable to Customer for any breach of such obligations by the sub-processor.
CenturyLink shall maintain an up to date list of its sub-processors and shall inform Customer with details of any intended change in sub-processors at least 30 days prior to any such change. The Customer may object to CenturyLink's appointment or replacement of a sub-processor prior to its appointment or replacement, provided such objection is based on reasonable grounds relating to data protection. In such event, CenturyLink will either not appoint or replace the sub-processor or, if this is not possible, the Customer may terminate the applicable Service Exhibit (without prejudice to any fees incurred by the Customer prior to termination). CenturyLink shall not use such sub-processor until any such objections are resolved or the Customer has terminated the applicable Service Exhibit.
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CenturyLink shall, insofar as is possible, promptly notify Customer of any inquiry, complaint notice or other communication it receives from any supervisory authority, or from any Data Subject relating to the Services (including any requests to access, correct, delete, block or restrict access to their Personal Data or receive a machine-readable copy thereof) and, insofar as is possible and to the extent technically feasible, assist Customer with its obligation to respond to any notification or Data Subject rights request in accordance with the timescales set out in the Data Protection Laws.
If Customer reasonably believes that CenturyLink’s processing of Personal Data is likely to result in a high risk to the data protection rights and freedoms of Data Subjects, CenturyLink shall, on request from Customer, assist Customer in connection with any data protection impact assessment and prior consultation, which may be subject to additional fees and terms, that may be required under Data Protection Laws, taking into account the nature of the processing and the information available to CenturyLink.
Breach Reporting. CenturyLink shall notify Customer without undue delay on becoming aware of any Personal Data Breach involving Personal Data Processed on behalf of Customer using the Services, and thereafter co-operate with Customer and provide assistance as may be reasonably required by Customer in the investigation, remediation and mitigation of such breach. CenturyLink shall provide reasonable assistance to Customer in respect of any breach reporting obligations Customer may have, and provide such additional information relating to such breach as Customer may reasonably require. The parties will agree in advance and in writing on any material remediation responsibilities and costs that exceed CenturyLink’s standard incident response process.
Audits. CenturyLink will maintain all information necessary to demonstrate compliance with its obligations identified in this DP Exhibit and a written record of all processing of Personal Data on behalf of Customer and, upon reasonable request grant Customer and its auditors and agents a right of access to and to take copies of records relating to compliance and all processing of such Personal Data on behalf of Customer in order to assess whether CenturyLink has complied with its obligations in respect of the processing of Personal Data. Upon reasonable notice, CenturyLink shall allow Customer to, or where applicable, shall cooperate with Customer and CenturyLink’s third-party providers to arrange for access to premises and other materials and personnel and shall provide reasonable assistance in order to assist Customer in exercising its audit rights under this clause provided that: (i) such access shall occur at a mutually agreeable time and the scope of the visit will be mutually agreed upon; (ii) such access shall not unreasonably interfere with CenturyLink’s operations; and (iii) access to CenturyLink premises and systems shall be subject to CenturyLink’s reasonable access requirements and security policies, and shall not compromise any confidential information to which the Customer has no entitlement.
Transfers. CenturyLink shall not transfer any Personal Data outside the EEA except to the extent authorised by Customer as follows:
At the date of this DP Exhibit Customer authorises CenturyLink to transfer Personal Data to the United States for the specific purpose of providing Services and performing its obligations under the Agreement and applicable Services Exhibit. The parties agree to enter into the Standard Contractual Clauses (in the form adopted by decision 2010/87/EU of 5 February 2010) with CenturyLink affiliate(s) on Customer’s behalf and in Customer’s name in order to provide adequate protection for such Personal Data, with Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 to such Clauses in the form appended hereto; and
If after the date of this DP Exhibit, CenturyLink (or any affiliate or any sub-contractor) proposes to transfer any Personal Data outside the EEA, other than as authorised above, CenturyLink (or any affiliate or any sub-contractor) shall obtain Customer’s consent prior to such transfer, which consent may be conditional upon the relevant parties having entered into an agreement what ensures that Personal Data is accurately protected as required by the Data Protection Laws.
Damages Cap. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY ELSEWHERE IN THE AGREEMENT, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR EACH PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS EXHIBIT WILL BE LIMITED TO THE LESSER OF (I) THE TOTAL MRCs AND USAGE CHARGES PAID OR PAYABLE BY CUSTOMER TO CENTURYLINK IN THE 12 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE OCCURRENCE OF THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (II) TWO MILLION DOLLARS. IN ADDITION, CENTURYLINK WILL NOT BE LIABLE HEREUNDER TO THE EXTENT ANY LIABILITY IS CAUSED BY OR CONTRIBUTED TO BY ANY PARTY OTHER THAN CENTURYLINK OR ITS SUBPROCESSORS.
Future Amendments. The parties may amend this DP Exhibit at any time during the term of the Agreement by written agreement if necessary to comply with any legal requirement or guidance from a supervisory authority, or if required to take account of any changes to the processing of Personal Data pursuant to the Agreement and applicable Services Exhibit(s).
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This Appendix forms part of the Clauses and must be completed by the Parties.
Data Exporter: The Data Exporter is Customer, a business customer of the Data Importer that is domiciled in the United States and that processes personal data in the ordinary course of its business, and that desires to obtain processing services, as authorized by its Affiliates in the EEA and their respective branches who are controllers based in the EEA.
Data Importer: The Data Importer is CenturyLink Communications, a company that is engaged in the provision of communications services, and that provides data processing services to the Data Exporter.
Data subjects: The personal data transferred concerns the current, former, and prospective employees, users, customers and similar parties engaged with the Data Exporter.
Categories of data: The personal data transferred may include, but is not limited to, name, address, email, phone number and such other personal data that may be transferred from the data controller to the data processor for processing services.
Special categories of data: The personal data transferred may concern special categories of data.
Processor operations: The Data Importer will, through authorized personnel, perform the following processing services: cloud hosting and communications services as may be individually ordered by Data Exporter and as more fully described in service orders, service exhibits and similar contractual documentation.
CenturyLink has implemented the data security measures described in this Appendix and shall maintain them, or an equally secure equivalent, during the applicable term of the Services. These measures generally apply to CenturyLink’s standard services and certain measures may not apply or may be applied differently to customized services, configurations, or environments ordered or as deployed by Customer. These measures have been implemented by CenturyLink to protect, directly or indirectly, the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Customer Data. As used in this Appendix, “Customer Data” means any data, content or information of Customer or its end users that is stored, transmitted, or otherwise processed using the CenturyLink Services.
COMPLIANCE WITH LAW, AUDIT REPORT. CenturyLink has adopted and implemented a corporate information security program as described below, which program is subject to reasonable changes by CenturyLink from time to time. CenturyLink has completed an AICPA sanctioned Type II audit report (SSAE18/ISAE3402 SOC 1 or SOC 2) for certain facilities/services and will continue to conduct such audits pursuant to a currently sanctioned or successor standard. Customer will be entitled to receive a copy of the then-available report upon request, which report is CenturyLink Confidential Information. Customer may make such report available to its end users subject to confidentiality terms provided by CenturyLink. Customer will ensure that all Customer Data complies with all applicable laws and appropriate information security practices, and nothing herein shall relieve Customer from its responsibility to select and implement such practices.
INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM. CenturyLink has implemented an information security program (the “Program”) that includes reasonable measures designed to: (1) secure the confidentiality and integrity of Customer Data; (2) to the extent related to the Services and CenturyLink infrastructure, protect against foreseeable threats to the security or integrity of Customer Data; (3) protect against unauthorized access to, disclosure of or unauthorized use of Customer Data; and (4) provide that CenturyLink employees are aware of the need to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and security of Customer Data. CenturyLink will limit access to Customer Data to only those employees, agents, contractors or service providers of CenturyLink who need the information to carry out the purposes for which Customer Data was disclosed to CenturyLink.
The CenturyLink Program is modelled on the ISO27001:2013-based Information Security Management System (“ISMS”), which establishes the guidelines and general principles used for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving protections for CenturyLink information and Customer Data. The CenturyLink Program, in alignment with the ISMS, is designed to select adequate and proportionate security controls to protect information and provides general guidance on the commonly accepted goals of information security management and standard practices for controls in the following areas of information security management:
Organization of information security
Human resources security
Physical and environmental security
Communications and operations management
Information systems acquisition, development, and maintenance
Information security incident management
CenturyLink has also implemented a formal information security policy and supporting methods and procedures, technical standards, and processes to reinforce the importance of information security throughout the organization (“Information Security Policy”). The Information Security Policy is in alignment with ISO 27002:2013 and is approved by the Chief Information Security Officer. The Information Security Policy outlines the requirements to maintain reasonable security for the Services. Employees and contractors with access to corporate information and Customer Data are required to complete annual security training based on the Information Security Policy. The Information Security Policy includes the following:
Physical Security Policy for data centers and Office Locations
Electronic Use Policy including:
Email Usage
Anti-Virus control
Remote and Home Working
Computer Security Incident Response Plan
Third Party Connections Agreements
Third Party Access
Wireless Scanning
SPECIFIC SECURITY CONTROLS. CenturyLink’s security controls include:
Logical access controls to manage access to Customer Data on a least privilege and need-to-know basis, including through the use of defined authority levels and job functions, unique IDs and passwords, strong (i.e. two-factor) authentication for remote access systems (and elsewhere as appropriate), and promptly revoking or changing access in response to terminations or changes in job functions.
Password controls to manage and control password complexity and expiration. Any password controlling access to the CenturyLink infrastructure must be of a minimum length and complexity.
Operational procedures and controls to provide that technology and information systems are configured and maintained according to prescribed internal standards.
Network security controls, including the use of firewalls, layered DMZs, and updated intrusion detection/prevention systems to help protect systems from intrusion and/or limit the scope or success of any attack or attempt at unauthorized access.
Vulnerability management procedures and technologies to identify, assess, mitigate and protect against new and existing security vulnerabilities and threats, including viruses, bots, and other malicious code.
Approved anti-malware software is installed on CenturyLink equipment capable of running it where the risk of infection is high. It is configured to prevent users disabling the software where possible or altering its configuration without authorization. Periodic evaluations are performed to confirm whether systems continue to require (or not) antivirus software.
Change management procedures outlining that modifications to CenturyLink technology and information assets are tested, approved, recorded, and monitored.
Organizational management designed to ensure the proper development and maintenance of information security and technology policies, procedures and standards.
Dedicated organizations with global responsibility for all physical security operations, security systems, access administration, and security controls within all CenturyLink-owned facilities and data centers. Third-party data centers are utilized for certain services and, in such cases, certain physical security and other controls are reviewed by CenturyLink.
Security policies which reinforce the importance of physical security of all company facilities including procedures specific to data center physical security. Data center security personnel are responsible for controlling data center access, monitoring local security alarms and managing all reported physical security-related events.
CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) commonly deployed as a physical security control in high value facilities to deter, detect and identify intruders. The Corporate Security Operations Center (CSOC) provides global, 24/7 support with remote monitoring, management, administration and maintenance of the CCTV video surveillance systems used throughout CenturyLink.
The Central Access Control Center (CACC) supports the distribution of all CenturyLink access badges and administration of access permissions within the access control system.
Disposal procedures for different types and classifications of information which are documented and communicated to personnel. Employees have access to secure shredders for hardcopy. Electronic media are disposed of through certified disposal vendors.
Pre-employment screening and background checks are conducted on incoming personnel in accordance with CenturyLink human resource on-boarding practices and applicable local law. The checks are dependent on, amongst other things: the role, location, any custom requirements, and can include: identity, drug, criminal, academic and credit checks.
Annual security awareness training for CenturyLink employees and contractors working on CenturyLink premises. The training reflects current threats and encourages basic security good practice, access to and knowledge of Information Security Policy and procedures such as how to report an incident. Employees in particular positions receive supplementary security training and if a training or testing issue arises (e.g., internal phishing exercises), further guidance is provided. CenturyLink conducts a continuous program of phishing tests on staff to reinforce the requirement for awareness and good email and browsing habits and to assess the effectiveness of security awareness training. The company intranet and email system are used to disseminate flash announcements on security matters as appropriate.
SECURITY AUDITS. Customer may, no more than once per year and at its own expense, audit CenturyLink’s performance with respect to its security obligations under this Appendix (“Audit”). In the event Customer retains a third party to perform an Audit, CenturyLink may require additional documentation be executed by the third party auditor prior to granting access to a CenturyLink facility where Services are provided, and CenturyLink may, at its sole and reasonable discretion, decline to allow a third party access to a data center. CenturyLink shall reasonably cooperate with Customer in its performance of the Audit and shall make available to Customer or its auditors documents and records reasonably required to complete the Audit. CenturyLink shall provide Customer with reasonable access to the relevant facility for the purpose of inspection of the equipment and facilities which are used to provide the Services to Customer. For purposes of clarification, access will not be granted to certain areas of certain facilities (such as data centers) to which CenturyLink does not generally allow access to its customers (e.g. areas which house equipment used to support services for multiple customers). Audit access is subject to CenturyLink’s reasonable security requirements for its most sensitive security policies/materials. Audit access must be within CenturyLink’s normal business hours and must be scheduled at least ten (10) business days in advance, and Customer or its auditor shall be escorted by CenturyLink personnel during the period of access. The Audit and any findings related thereto shall be treated as Confidential Information.
SECURITY INCIDENTS AND RESPONSE.In the event CenturyLink determines that a Security Incident has impacted Customer Data, CenturyLink shall promptly take the following actions:
Notify Customer of such Security Incident and provide periodic updates as appropriate given the nature of the Security Incident and as information becomes available;
Take reasonable steps to remediate and mitigate the Security Incident, to the extent such steps are technically feasible and appropriate in the circumstances;
Conduct a preliminary investigation into the Security Incident to determine, to the extent reasonably feasible, its root cause; and
Reasonably cooperate with Customer in its efforts to remediate or mitigate the Security Incident and its efforts to comply with applicable law and legal authorities, as necessary.
For purposes hereof, “Security Incident” means any unlawful or unauthorized access, theft, or use of Customer Data while being stored, transmitted or otherwise processed using CenturyLink services.
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Steven Fletcher wants to be a Conservative MP again
Then-Conservative MP Steven Fletcher holds a press conference on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa Thursday March 27, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand
Published Monday, February 19, 2018 8:50PM EST
WINNIPEG -- A former federal Conservative MP who now sits as an Independent member of the Manitoba legislature says he's making another run for federal politics.
Steven Fletcher announced Monday on Facebook that he will seek the Conservative nomination in the federal consistency of Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingley.
Fletcher previously held the federal seat from 2004 until he was defeated in 2015, and served in the cabinet of former prime minister Stephen Harper.
He then won a provincial seat as a member of the Progressive Conservatives when the party won power in 2016.
But he was removed from caucus and was forced to sit as an Independent after he criticized the government over its decision to set up an entity separate from Manitoba Hydro to promote energy efficiency.
Fletcher says in his Facebook post that he will continue his role as an MLA for Assiniboia in the upcoming legislature session.
"I have many events, activities and active legislative agenda to bring forward and complete. These include a dozen pieces of legislation, working with the community on parks and recreation space, community forms, barbecues, presentations to community groups, school visits, etc.," Fletcher wrote.
"I appreciate everyone's support, I really do."
I am seeking the nomination for the Conservative Party of Canada in the Federal riding of Charleswood-St....
Posted by Steven Fletcher on Monday, February 19, 2018
Fletcher is a quadriplegic and became well-known during his time as a federal politician for his battle for the right to assisted suicide.
After he was ejected from Manitoba's government caucus, Fletcher filed a lawsuit over a provincial law that forbids legislature members from crossing the floor and joining another caucus.
Under the law introduced by the former NDP government in 2006, Fletcher was required to sit as an Independent until the next election. That, or he could resign his seat and run in a byelection under another party banner.
Fletcher's lawyer told court in December the restriction violates Fletcher's freedom of expression and association under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Sheldon Lanchbery reserved his decision until March.
Politician in court to overturn law that prevents floor crossing in Manitoba
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Squid Kitchen at King & Co, Clapham
01 Sep 15 – 04 Oct 15, 17:00 - 22:00 Monday to Friday; 12:00 - 20:00 Saturday; 12:00 - 20:00 Sunday
Squid Kitchen, The King & Co’s latest pop-up, will be serving top-notch Spanish cuisine throughout September
By CW Contributor on 1/9/2015
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The unpretentious and charming King & Co pub is probably one of Clapham's best gastros, serving up a constantly-changing selection of the best in British and European craft beers and ciders in stylish yet unassuming surrounds. With their kitchen manned each month by a different pop-up team, this September it's the turn of Spanish street food sensation, Squid Kitchen.
Madrid market cooking will soon be just a stone’s throw away from Clapham Common and the pop-up is devising a menu that will be more extensive than ever before. In addition to comprising the usual squid-focused street delicacies – notably their signature Squid Kitchen Cones with Vampire Killer aioli – the chefs will be cooking up classic snacks inspired by the varied dishes of the Spanish capital. Expect explosive flavours from their Fiery Chorizo Stew, Godfather Peppers and Patatas Bravas.
Every Friday night the Squid Kitchen kicks off the weekend with the entertaining #FishFryDay, and to carry you through there are “Bottomless Brunch” Bloody Marys on offer to wash down their all-day breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays.
For Spanish restaurants in South London with a seafood twist, we'd recommend heading over to The King & Co before their collaboration with Squid Kitchen comes to an end on 4 October.
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What Squid Kitchen at King & Co, Clapham
Where The King & Co, 100 Clapham Park Rd, London, SW4 7BZ | MAP
Nearest tube Clapham Common (underground)
When 01 Sep 15 – 04 Oct 15, 17:00 - 22:00 Monday to Friday; 12:00 - 20:00 Saturday; 12:00 - 20:00 Sunday
Price £4 - £8
Website Click here to visit the King & Co website
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Headsets Begin a Climb up the Food Chain
Published on 02/05/2017 in Feature
Peripherals/add ons
The market for business grade headsets is highly competitive with distributors and vendors constantly vying for position and advantage through innovation but, is price taking more of a back seat these days?
The market for headsets continues to be buoyant and is being persistently propelled by the take up of unified communications applications (UC/UCaaS).
Closely related to this growth in UC app deployment has been the number of firms that have realised that their business agility and responsiveness can be improved by having a more mobile workforce.
Nigel Dunn, Managing Director EMEA North at Jabra, picks up this point when he says the traditional office-based 9-5 routine is steadily being replaced by mobile working, including the home office.
“Employees are demanding more flexibility and autonomy than ever before. This is forcing employers to adopt mobile-first strategies.
This new way of working presents new challenges. Over the past 12-18 months, UK businesses have been struggling with productivity and the quality of labour output. Naturally, business leaders want to ensure that their employees perform their duties off-site in the most efficient and effective way possible. Recent research has suggested that flexible working does lead to improvements in productivity and importantly, company profits. However, this depends entirely on what IT departments equip their employees with. Technology can play a lead role but choosing the right hardware and software will ultimately determine the level of success achieved.”
Nigel Holland, Telecom Product Manager at Sennheiser, agrees that growth in unified communications is driving the market.
“Today, there is a fusing together of communication platforms such as web chat, Skype, email, instant messaging and people juggling with different devices such as BYOD smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. This also reflects more agile working practises such as people working from home and on the move. As such unified communications make absolute sense helping people manage different devices and different communication platforms.
At the larger strategic level this is also being driven in no small part by cloud-based applications such as Office 365. More organisations are also moving towards the cloud because it can dramatically cut CAPEX costs and improve efficiency. When you tie this into a move towards collaborative working the need for high-quality headsets becomes even more pressing.
If organisations today can’t respond to the communication channel that customers prefer, they are in danger of losing customers. This is the bigger picture and of course customer service reps need to be able to move effortlessly between different communications platforms. At the efficiency level, cloud-based collaboration also improves communication between offices in various locations and employees on the move. To get the most out of this, high-quality business headsets are fundamental enabling easy switching between different devices, remote working and hot-desking.”
What are the most popular models? Nigel Dunn at Jabra says that when it comes to headsets, he expects to see increasing demand for active noise-cancelling technology that supports Unified Communications applications.
“In the remote or open plan office, interruptions and distractions from the surrounding environment are known to negatively impact performance. We designed our Evolve range to combat this problem. The headset facilitates agile working and concentration by actively blocking out low frequency ambient noise in a room – an irritation that often makes working from home or a public space difficult.”
The demand for unified communications, Bluetooth, multi-device solutions paired to the one headset is enormous according to Nigel Holland at Sennheiser.
“It actually represents the majority of our headset business these days. At the moment corded headsets are still popular because larger volumes can be bought at lower cost. But increasingly employees are juggling different devices and as a result, the most popular business headsets are those that enable people to respond to calls irrespective of which device the call comes from.
That said it’s important to choose the correct headset which is determined by how it will be used. Corded USB headsets tend to be used for more desk centric working. DECT wireless headsets on the other hand enable hands free roaming around an office while Bluetooth headsets are ideal for users seeking wireless hands free benefits with the flexibility to quickly connect to a wide range of different types of devices. The new Sennheiser SC45 and 75 corded headsets also provide a further flexible option by connecting to a PC via a USB connection. This dual connectivity is provided via a 3.5 mm jack and USB plug so users can easily connect to a smartphone or tablet as well as a PC.”
Nigel Dunn, Managing Director EMEA North at Jabra says ‘the traditional office-based 9-5 routine is steadily being replaced by mobile working, including the home office.’
How are collaboration platforms and other UC apps impacting business?
Nigel Dunn at Jabra believes that new features such as intelligent call transfer will offer peace of mind to business leaders concerned about a drop off in communications and output from workers on the move.
“The technology seamlessly and instantly transfers Skype for Business PC calls to smart devices. It provides employees ‘on the go’ with the flexibility to continue conversations and collaborate with co-workers without physically swapping from a softphone to a mobile mid-call. From a wider business perspective, these kinds of features give reseller partners the opportunity to open new discussions with end-users. They will help to increase spend for incremental revenue and grow existing headset categories and beyond-the-box applications.”
Nigel Holland at Sennheiser points out that Skype for Business is a fundamental component in Office 365.
“In Microsoft’s 2016 Annual Report the company cited more than 70 million people using Office 365 commercially every single month. One of the drivers for this growing adoption is collaboration through SharePoint, another Office 365 feature, and Skype for Business. So clearly Skype for Business, Cisco Jabber and other leading UC solutions providers are having an enormous impact. The cost-saving benefits are immense, virtual cost-free communications around the world and the fact that it dovetails with other tools like presence, IM, and video. As such it’s a compelling argument for many organisations hence its growing popularity.”
Cutting the Cord?
Growth in wireless headset sales increases year-on-year and according to Nigel Dunn at Jabra, this is likely to continue in the mid to long-term.
“Call centric environments, where conversation is the dominant work mode, are significant contributors. If we take the contact centre as an example, the nature of the business is changing substantially.
Call centre agents that work remotely is a growing trend. Driving this change will be cloud-based contact centres, UC and wireless headsets. Agents will be able to locate themselves in an area of their choice or liaise with colleagues without having to worry about the restrictions placed on them by corded headsets. The evolution of mobile communications will support this shift with basic IM and presence features as well as increased Enterprise voice usage. For the channel this is good news. It will help them to upsell from corded to wireless to drive incremental revenue in existing accounts.”
Sennheiser is also experiencing growth in wireless headsets with Nigel Holland saying that the benefits of wireless headsets are compelling.
“Wireless headsets provide the freedom to roam untethered to a host device together with the convenience and efficiency of true hands-free working.
These benefits are recognised across a wide range of markets and today wireless headsets are common in all major verticals across both the public and private sectors including finance and banking, commercial services, government, healthcare and the blue-light service segments.
Wireless also addresses different usage patterns for an increasingly agile workforce and as such adoption is growing in all areas including the former corded headset fortress of the contact centre.
Wireless adoption is also growing rapidly in UC environments and Sennheiser has partnered with all the major UC platform providers to make sure our wireless solutions are tested and certified for use with UC platforms.
All our UC headsets integrate seamlessly with both Microsoft Skype for Business and Cisco Jabber providing true plug and play. The Sennheiser portfolio also includes solutions such as the DW family of DECT headsets which support both traditional handset and softphone connectivity. This provides a flexible solution for businesses with a mixed estate of desk phones and softphones. Some businesses prefer to retain this mix while others are in the process of phased migrations to softphone usage.”
Prosumer’ Trends Ignite Headset Market
The headset market has been ignited by end user demands for higher spec performance as the lines between business and personal use blur even more.
Jason Welsh, Headset Business Manager at Nimans, highlighted: “We are seeing trends towards higher specification headsets that is often referred to as a prosumer product. It’s a consumer style experience but for a professional user, which blurs the lines between home and business use. It could be someone travelling to work on a train in a morning and listening to their music. But when they get into the office their headset becomes their business tool. There’s a lot of synergy with smartphones with connectivity available for 3.5mm jack, Bluetooth and USB. It’s all about enriching the user experience and manufacturers have worked hard to increase and develop audio performance and functionality. Just listening to music is as good as what you would expect from a £250 set of hi-fi cans. One device does everything now. Users can carry it with them whether at home, commuting to the office or hot desking. Their headset becomes just as important as an iPad or laptop.”
Welsh added that price is no longer the overriding factor.
“The first generation of UC adaptors were very much price led but the penny has now dropped that it’s far more cost effective to spend a little more and get a lot back. Over the long term this is a much more compelling option. The experience is enriched by investing in a higher end product. They will keep it for longer too.
A typical reseller I’m now seeing has changed. There’s a lot more Data-based resellers supplying cloud-based solutions. To really make that work a high-quality headset is needed because if the end point isn’t up to the job then the whole user experience is eroded and adoption rates tumble. Therefore, the whole technology doesn’t get used. ROI then goes out the window.
Resellers now have the confidence to position much higher spec and more expensive headsets because they understand they ‘glue’ everything together. Audio quality is paramount in enhancing the whole experience. The end point is crucial to the overall communications platform. People can work in smarter ways. Penny pinching often leads to more breakdowns because the headsets are less durable too. In today’s cloud-based world many resellers are software driven but we have decades of experience with hardware to assist them. Our approach is agnostic too for the best advice. It’s about providing the most appropriate solutions for their customer’s needs. Price has been overtaken by performance.”
Analytics Anyone?
In January this year Plantronics launched the latest version of their Manager Pro, an application that provides operational, historical, and contextual data on voice interactions and headset usage patterns with the subscription to new analysis suites.
Every company depends on data analytics to make strategic decisions and this app utilises a cloud-based architecture to ensure the quality of communications and collaboration experiences by assuring device health, measuring usage dynamics, and safeguarding users.
“The release of Plantronics Manager Pro v3.9 clearly demonstrates the vendor’s move from a hardware manufacturer to a software-focused platform provider that is aiming to help its customers transform their entire business,” said Melanie Turek, Fellow and Vice President, Frost & Sullivan. “Leveraging this new cloud-based solution, IT and line-of-business managers can manage devices and ensure call quality. But more importantly, they can also quickly collect and analyse broader business data to derive actionable insights about people, usage, anomalies, compliance, trends and more. It’s exciting to see Plantronics move into business analytics, which has enormous potential for enabling true digital transformation.”
Ed Says…
Are headsets moving further up the food chain and becoming less of a commodity purchase for business? A shift from buying ‘Tesco Essentials’ to ‘Tesco Finest’ is signalled here in many ways, not least of which is a claim from Nimans that the market is no longer price led. The Plantronics Manager pro seems to have come of age and appears to be a must have for Enterprises seeking to maximise the outcome of a digital transformation.
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How a council is successfully retaining social workers
Ofsted praised Shropshire's workforce strategy in a report published last year - here is how they keep social workers on board
By Luke Stevenson on January 3, 2018 in Workforce
Photo: pressmaster/Fotolia (posed by models)
When Ofsted visited Shropshire’s children’s services, it found a council delivering a ‘good’ overall service and which had, despite some recruitment and retention challenges, demonstrated “effective workforce planning and development” which led to an “increasingly stable workforce”.
Inspectors praised a strong commitment to a learning culture, positive staff feedback and a comprehensive workforce strategy, which promoted social work professional development across all levels of experience.
The strategy was overseen by Siobhan Hughes, principal social worker for children in Shropshire.
“Sometimes local authorities can be in competition with each other in trying to attract social workers, so you think ‘We’ll put our wages up and that’s how we’ll get more people’. Our workforce strategy is [about] understanding who comes to work here, and who stays.”
Practice priorities
A large part of the council’s success as identified by Ofsted was the workforce strategy, which Hughes says was developed alongside a list of practice priorities identified by an audit of social work practice.
For Hughes, the strategy for social workers is to get them all equipped with the skills around those priorities, which included knowledge around assessment, core groups and writing plans.
“We wanted to make sure we’d got opportunities for everyone to have a consistent level of skills and there [be] opportunities to expand your practice and knowledge and lift it up,” Hughes explains.
She says now the council has a solid ‘good’ baseline the opportunity is there for practitioners to begin to innovate.
“If you’ve got a specialist area, or you really want to understand knowledge, theory, and applying that to social work practice then you can have that opportunity,” Hughes explains.
Creating progression opportunities
From this point of getting safeguarding services to a good baseline, the important thing is showing social workers they have a future, Hughes explains.
In a council with a small number of social workers and managers, chances for progression are less than in other, bigger authorities, so Hughes says the council has created more practice educator posts, as well as more senior and advanced practitioner roles.
“If people want the opportunities to do something a wee bit different, we’re open to that,” she adds.
“We have good retention rates of people who have been with us as students. We have looked at how we create more opportunities for students…We are getting more practice educators and ensuring there are opportunities for student placements with us.
“If our students stay long term, that’s what we want, [so] once you get through your Assessed and Supported Year in Employment; how do we keep you within the organisation?”
These are all steps taken to show social workers they have a future inside the organisation but the “key” to retention, in Hughes’ eyes, is supervision.
“What people are saying back to us is that the opportunities for supervision are good; that’s important,” Hughes says.
The council operates a relationship-based social work model, and has recently launched a 4×4 model of supervision centred around reflective practice. However, its important for the council to be flexible: “Not every worker needs to be supervised the same, so you need to be able to supervise individually.”
The success of this has been backed up by Ofsted, which said – while further strengthening could be done – management oversight was “clearly evident through regular and effective formal supervision”.
Supporting social workers
For Hughes, it’s now about the future and supporting social workers. The council is involved with a raft of innovations – teaching partnerships, Frontline, Step Up To Social Work – and she hopes the council, and its relatively small number of staff, will continue to develop.
Service users are joining the council’s steering group to improve practice. The service ended the year running an impact project working with service user groups, and every manager up to the chief executive will be going on a visit with a social worker.
“We have very clear priorities and I think for any workforce or quality assurance strategy; there’s no point in trying to do too many things at once. If you focus on a few priorities and trying to do them well then you can move on to the others.”
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One Response to How a council is successfully retaining social workers
Steve Horton January 10, 2018 at 2:39 pm #
Very positive interesting article well done Shropshire, I would be interested to know what the average caseloads are for Social Workers in Shropshire though, and whether the definition of one case is one child or young person, or the whole family if there is more than one child or young person allocated in the same family?
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A Truly Kinetic Relationship that Delivers: NYC Health + Hospitals
Crothall’s Healthcare Technology Solutions (HTS) lowered biomedical service costs while improving service efficiency at NYC Health + Hospitals (NYC H+H). NYC H+H is the nation’s largest public health care system with 21 facilities, 11 acute care hospitals and 7500 beds serving more than one million New York City residents annually. Crothall HTS streamlined asset inventory and maintenance to save capital and create new competencies in inspection and evaluation.
In April 2014 Crothall HTS began consolidating dozens
of former individual contracts with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and maintenance vendors on any apparatus used for patient diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring. The reduction of these contracts into a single Crothall account lowered costs that have amounted to more than $35 million in savings by 2017 and is projected to save over $150 million on the asset baseline by 2023.
“Crothall is part of the team, without the feel of any vendor doing outsourced work,” said Joachim Wilson, Assistant Vice President of Strategic Sourcing at NYC Health + Hospitals. “The Joint Commission and the Center for Medicaid Services (CMS) have given us great reviews and clear inspections as we have added assets.”
Success from Step One
Crothall committed to the inventory and maintenance of the system’s equipment – in some cases, sight unseen. NYC Health + Hospitals’ acute care centers and other facilities had a network of agreements with few standardized inspection guidelines. Crothall created an initial inventory, location and state of every asset in the NYC H+H system and then developed standards and a plan for care.
“Compliance was the first priority,” said Shashi Avadhani, Regional Vice President of Crothall’s HTS Division at NYC Health + Hospitals. “Standardized inspection of equipment is critical and we put together a management plan that reflected that process.” Crothall inventoried the system and determined the contract covered 76,000 assets, which grew to 83,000 during the partnership.
Putting a Process Together
Crothall formulated a risk-based strategy for preventative maintenance. Critical equipment such as life support apparatus received primary focus. Using evidence-based analytics they determined the frequency of inspection for every asset and adjusted it as new information was received. Redundant tasks were eliminated and efficiency increased.
“We really get into the root causes of any problems,” said Wilson. “Crothall helps find out not just what to fix in a delay but to identify the cause from internal sources or the manufacturer, so problems don’t occur again.” Trends in equipment uptime were broken down by department and analyzed to proactively address any negative risks.
$35+ Million in Savings by 2017
98% Equipment Uptime
83,000 Assets Managed
95% Customer Satisfaction
Training Staff, Working with Vendors
Crothall initiated system-wide training for hospital administration and staff. Staff engagement improved while costs and delays were reduced as maintenance issues were brought in-house. Daily reporting and monthly joint reviews are complemented by an annual reconciliation of assets to decide maintenance or replacement procedures.
“The staff became more productive to keep equipment
in top condition,” said Avadhani. “We have trained specialists to address more complex equipment, and we leveraged
both internal and external resources at no additional
expense to our client to make sure patient care was the best
it could be.”
Passing with Flying Colors
Crothall’s strategy has brought the system through 11 successful Joint Commission and several CMS inspections. Each of NYC Health + Hospitals’ 21 hospitals has a Crothall manager responsible for maintaining metrics for strategic and regulatory purposes. Equipment uptime on diagnostic imaging equipment exceeds 98%. Regulatory Compliance, increased customer satisfaction, decreased downtime and financial predictability highlight Crothall’s success at NYC H+H.
“There’s a very kinetic relationship between Crothall and NYC Health + Hospitals,” said Wilson. “I always know resource data, problems being addressed, how to prepare for inspections. It’s much more reassuring than seeing a vendor every few months; Mr. Avadhani and I speak daily.”
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Reduced Reporting in Call Reports for Covered Depository Institutions
Financial Institution Letters
FIL-36-2019
Printable Format:
FIL-36-2019 - PDF (PDF Help)
The federal banking agencies have adopted the attached final rule to implement Section 205 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. Section 205 requires the agencies to issue regulations to allow for reduced reporting in the reports of condition for the first and third calendar quarters of a year. The final rule expands the eligibility for filing the agencies' most streamlined report of condition, the FFIEC 051 Call Report, to include certain insured depository institutions with less than $5 billion in total consolidated assets that meet other criteria, i.e., “covered depository institutions.” The agencies also approved certain reporting changes to the FFIEC 051 Call Report that, along with the increase in the asset size threshold for filing this report, will take effect September 30, 2019, subject to approval by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Statement of Applicability to Institutions with Total Assets Under $1 Billion: This Financial Institution Letter applies to FDIC-supervised institutions with less than $5 billion in total assets.
Under the final rule, a covered depository institution may file the FFIEC 051 Call Report, which provides for reduced reporting in the first and third quarters. The FDIC defines a covered depository institution as an FDIC-supervised institution with less than $5 billion in total assets that (1) has no foreign offices; (2) is not an “advanced approaches institution” for regulatory capital purposes; (3) is not treated as a “large” or “highly complex” institution for deposit insurance assessment purposes; and (4) is not a state-licensed insured branch of a foreign bank.
In conjunction with the final rule, and subject to OMB approval, the agencies are:
Reducing the reporting frequency of certain existing data items in the FFIEC 051 Call Report for the first and third calendar quarters for all institutions filing this report; and
Incorporating a limited number of data items currently reported in the FFIEC 041 Call Report into the FFIEC 051 Call Report, generally with a reduced reporting frequency. These data items would be applicable only to certain institutions with $1 billion or more in total assets.
An institution eligible to file the FFIEC 051 Call Report has the option to file the FFIEC 041 Call Report.
The agencies are committed to exploring further burden reduction and are actively evaluating further revisions to the FFIEC 051 Call Report.
Institutions should review FIL-35-2019 for further information about the final rule and the related reporting revisions.
This FIL expires one year after issuance.
FDIC-Supervised Institutions
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FIL-35-2019, July 5, 2019, Reduced Reporting in Call Reports for Covered Depository Institutions
FIL-74-2018, November 19, 2018, Reduced Reporting in Call Reports for Covered Depository Institutions
Federal Register Notice, June 21, 2019
FDIC's Data Collection and Analysis Section at 800-688-3342 or FDICInfoReq@fdic.gov;
Andrew Overton, Examination Specialist, at 202-898-8922 or aoverton@fdic.gov;
Nefretete Smith, Counsel, at 202-898-6851 or nefsmith@fdic.gov; or
Kathryn Marks, Counsel, at 202-898-3896 or kmarks@fdic.gov.
FDIC Financial Institution Letters (FILs) may be accessed from the FDIC's website at www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/index.html.
To receive FILs electronically, please visit www.fdic.gov/about/subscriptions/fil.html.
Paper copies may be obtained via the FDIC's Public Information Center, 3501 Fairfax Drive, E 1002, Arlington, VA 22226 (877-275-3342 or 703-562-2200).
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Stunning NASA image reveals mysterious ice mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres that scientists say is like 'nothing humanity has ever seen before'
Mountain, Ahuna Mons, is ‘the largest mountain on the largest known asteroid in our solar system,’ NASA says
Experts suspect it may be evidence of mud bubble from deep inside planet that froze after breaching surface
The image shared this week on NASA's Astronomy Pictured of the Day was made using detailed surface maps
By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
A stunning new image constructed from surface maps has revealed a close-up look at the otherworldly features on the surface of Ceres.
NASA’s now-retired Dawn spacecraft reached the dwarf planet in 2015, making it the first to visit an object of this kind.
And, it uncovered many peculiarities.
The strange looking mountain in the latest image featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day highlights one such oddity; while it’s unclear what exactly spurred its formation, experts suspect it may be evidence of a mud bubble from deep inside the planet that froze over after breaching the surface.
A stunning new image constructed from surface maps has revealed a close-up look at the otherworldly features on the surface of Ceres. According to the space agency, the unusual mountain is ‘like nothing that humanity has ever seen before.’ The image was created using detailed surface maps
Ceres has garnered much intrigue after the Dawn mission snapped images of mysterious bright spots on its surface. But, detailed observations from the spacecraft revealed these aren’t its only treasures.
The image shared this week was created using surface maps taken during 2016.
The mountain, called Ahuna Mons, is ‘the largest mountain on the largest known asteroid in our solar system,’ NASA says.
Ceres sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
According to the space agency, the unusual mountain is ‘like nothing that humanity has ever seen before.’
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‘The new hypothesis, based on numerous gravity measurements, holds that a bubble of mud rose from deep within the dwarf planet and pushed through the icy surface at a weak point rich in reflective salt -- and then froze,’ NASA says.
‘The bright streaks are thought to be similar to other recently surfaced material such as visible in Ceres' famous bright spots.’
Ceres has garnered much intrigue after the Dawn mission snapped images of mysterious bright spots on its surface, as seen in the image above
Since its discovery, scientists have speculated on the possibility that Ceres may be able to support life.
An analysis published in 2018 based on data from the Dawn spacecraft suggests previously-identified patches of organic material on the surface may contain much higher abundance of carbon-based compounds than initially estimated.
NASA’s now-retired Dawn spacecraft reached the dwarf planet in 2015, making it the first to visit an object of this kind
While it doesn’t mean life exists on the dwarf planet, the discovery adds new clues to the question of Ceres’ potential habitability.
Scientists first announced the discovery of organic material – a necessary component for the existence of life – in 2017.
Organics can be produced through non-biological processes as well. Just how they arrived on Ceres, however, remains a mystery.
As the planet is also known to contain an abundance of water ice, scientists say the possibility of more widespread organic material is worth investigating.
According to the researchers, there are two likely explanations for Ceres’ organic material: production on the planet itself and later exposed to the surface, or import from an impact by a comet.
WHAT IS THE DWARF PLANET CERES AND WHY IS NASA STUDYING IT?
Ceres is 590 miles (950 km) across and was discovered in 1801.
It is the closest dwarf planet to the sun and is located in the asteroid belt, making it the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system.
While it is the smallest of the known dwarf planets, it is the largest object in the asteroid belt.
It lies less than three times as far as Earth from the sun - close enough to feel the warmth of the star, allowing ice to melt and reform.
Nasa's Dawn spacecraft made its way to Ceres after leaving the asteroid Vesta in 2012.
There is high interest in the mission because Ceres is seen as being a record of the early solar system.
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Celtic fans slammed after 'Shove your poppy up your f***ing arse' chant video exposed online
The crass chant were heard as the Hoops cruised to victory over Dundee at Dens Park last night.
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Celtic fans have been slammed on social media after an anti-poppy chant was heard at their match against Dundee last night.
Fans could be heard singing 'You can shove your f***ing poppy up you a**e" as their team strolled to a 5-0 win at Dens Park.
After a video posted on Twitter, one user hit out: "Their own players fought in WW1 and I bet many of their ancestors did as well. The irony."
Another said: "Disgusting, no doubt also disrespecting their own ancestors who fought bravely so they could have ‘freedom’ to sing what they like."
Celtic fans have hit the headlines in recent years over the poppy issue.
A section of the Celtic fans made their feelings clear on the issue in November 2010 with their infamous 'bloostained poppy' (sic) banner
Stoke reveal James McCLean will not wear a poppy as winger issues statement
Members of the Green Brigade held up a banner in 2010 in a match against Aberdeen protesting against a 'bloodstained poppy on our hoops'.
The supporters’ group claimed the poppy had been tarnished by British military action in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ireland.
The club apologised against "the actions of this small minority" who, they said, "have no place at Celtic Park".
More than 50 contracted and former Celtic players fought in World War I, seven of whom died. William Angus was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in battle.
Celtic player William Angus won the VC
However in recent years, Celtic fans have railed against what some have called the increased politicisation of the poppy. Many of the club's fans come from Northern Ireland, where Remembrance Sunday can be seen by some as belonging to the Unionist tradition.
Republic of Ireland star James McClean once again reiterated his opposition to wearing the poppy, while respecting others right to do so.
The Derry-born Celtic diehard grew up on the city's Creggan estate, the same place that was home to six of the 28 unarmed civilians shot by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday in 1972 after a peaceful protest.
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He chooses not to wear a poppy because it commemorates all military personnel who have died in war and not just those who were killed in the First or Second World War.
Many Celtic fans, including those opposed to military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, feel the same way.
Some of those criticising last night's actions felt that the offensive chants marked a low point, however.
One Twitter poster said: "Quite vile. I understand if they don't want to wear one, but this is nasty."
Celtic FC is a regular supporter of Poppyscotland and for the past seven years has made a £10,000 donation to the charity.
Ahead of Remembrance Sunday last year, Celtic Foundation chief Tony Hamilton said: "“This Remembrance Sunday we remember all those who died in that war, a conflict which claimed the lives of over 16million people. It was a conflict which affected individuals, families, communities and organisations in every country caught up in the war, and Celtic Football Club was no different.
“As the world was plunged into war in 1914, all aspects of life changed and the Great War was to have its effect on Celtic and a number of its players.
“As we remember them and all fallen in all conflicts, we are pleased to continue our support of Poppyscotland through this excellent initiative.”
Celtic FC has been contacted for comment.
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Guide to Jane Austen’s Writing Style
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WHY JANE AUSTEN?
By Veronica Monique on July 22, 2015 in Undead Ends
Today we welcome a wonderful author who embraces writing with the tongue in cheek, Beth Andrews (a.k.a. Paul Bethel), to share with us his adaptation of one of Jane Austen’s lesser discussed works. And don’t forget to enter for a chance to win a copy below!
If anyone reads my adaptation, Love and Freindship, and Other Delusions, expecting a typical regency romance, they will be bitterly disappointed. Like the original, it is a satire from start to finish. Having written five regency romances and two regency whodunits, I wanted to do something that was both funny and serious. I always enjoyed Jane’s juvenile fiction, and Love and Freindship has a crude but pungent didacticism that only hints at the more subtle work to come.
As this story shows, Jane Austen may well be more relevant today than ever before. Her view of love and marriage remains outside of the mainstream, both socially and artistically—which has always been a big part of her appeal to me. The only time she becomes “trendy” is when the movies mercilessly romanticize her fiction to make it acceptable to the general public. I’m not sure that she would have been amused. In an age addicted to romance, we readily dismiss as priggish, for example, Lizzy Bennet’s comment on Lydia and Wickham’s future, that “little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple . . . brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.” For most contemporary readers, passion (from a word meaning “suffering”) is itself a virtue—perhaps the only one any longer permissible.
Jane Austen knew, however, that romantic passion is like a Fourth of July fireworks display: exploding brightly for a brief instant, then falling to earth in a pile of ashes. That may do for a pleasurable sexual encounter, but it is worse than useless as a motive for the Herculean task of building a marriage. This philosophy alienated many of the great Victorian novelists. Jane would probably have been highly entertained by the antics of Heathcliff and Catherine, and their gloriously dysfunctional relationship, but would have considered Hareton and young Cathy more promising prospects for a happy marriage. I’m convinced that Emily Bronte actually felt the same, and that Wuthering Heights was intended to show (to paraphrase de Rougemont) that when love becomes a god, it becomes a demon.
Personally, my heart leaps up when Elinor declares to Marianne that “it is not meant—it is not fit—it is not possible” for one’s happiness to depend entirely on one particular person, however “bewitching” the idea. O blessed Elinor! No other major novelist has had the intestinal fortitude to create a heroine so ruthlessly unsentimental. Neither Elinor nor her creator would ever advise anyone to “follow their heart,” for instance. Such meaningless claptrap was beneath them.
K. Chesterton has said that Jane Austen “could keep her head” while the women writers who followed her “went looking for their brains.” Alas, both male and female writers are still looking for their brains—in all the wrong places. One of the things Jane was saying (and what Love and Freindship has inspired me to say, in my own small way) is this: First, when making major choices in your life, like whom you should marry, your brain should be consulted as well as your heart. Second, neither your brain nor your heart is located below your waist; and if you insist on being led by that particular portion of your anatomy, you have no right to expect a happy outcome. Studies consistently show that in countries where arranged marriages are common, divorce rates are lower and marital happiness greater. But don’t we all know (courtesy of Pride and Prejudice) that “happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”? After all, Jane Austen had learned from her beloved Dr. Johnson that marriage is only unhappy because life is unhappy. So keep calm and get over it already!
As civilization disintegrates around me, I turn again to Jane, who is as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar and shines as brightly as the Evening Star.
Beth Andrews (a.k.a. Paul Bethel) was born in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1958. While holding various jobs—newspaper sub-editor, accountant, assistant manager in a music store, receptionist and sales clerk—he managed to write nine novels/novellas, seven of which have been published under his pen name of Beth Andrews (which he wishes he had never chosen, since so many other authors have adopted it as well).
Only his most recent book, Love and Freindship, and Other Delusions, is currently in print. Like most of his book-length fiction, it was published by Robert Hale Limited, London, England. An audio book version is now available, and a large-print edition should be released within the next year.
His previous books (now all available as e-books from Belgrave House/Regency Reads) are as follows:
The Marplot Marriage
A Scandalous Secret
St. George and the Dragon
Stolen Waters
Hidden in the Heart
The Unforgiving Eye
Paul enjoys reading, writing, classic films, occasional travel, a little gardening, beach-going and other forms of time-wasting.
He is still deciding whether or not to write another book, considering that this might be rather more of a waste of time then even he can stomach.
He has had a number of short stories, articles and even poems published in various U.S. and U.K. magazines over the years, most of which are quite forgettable.
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Timeline: The rise and fall of Nate Boulton's run for governor
Prior to the allegations of sexual harassment, Nate Boulton was seen as a rising star in the Democratic party.
Timeline: The rise and fall of Nate Boulton's run for governor Prior to the allegations of sexual harassment, Nate Boulton was seen as a rising star in the Democratic party. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://dmreg.co/2IIo1uF
Lauren Ehrler, lehrler@dmreg.com Published 4:12 p.m. CT May 24, 2018
Three women have accused Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Nate Boulton of inappropriate sexual conduct. Michael Zamora, mzamora@dmreg.com
Sen. Nate Boulton (right) and his wife, Andrea, march to the park Sept. 30, 2017, at the Polk County Steak Fry at Water Works Park in Des Moines.(Photo: Michael Zamora/The Register)Buy Photo
Democratic candidate Nate Boulton suspended his campaign for governor Thursday, one day after the Des Moines Register reported on allegations the current state senator touched women sexually without their consent.
Boulton, 38, was one of six candidates vying in a June 5 primary for the chance to face off against Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and a Libertarian candidate in November.
Prior to the allegations, Boulton was seen as a rising star in the Democratic party. He is an attorney at Hedberg & Boulton specializing in workers compensation, personal injury and labor law. He is a Columbus Junction native and graduate of Drake University Law and Simpson College.
He worked on the 2012 case in which labor leader Danny Homan and several Democratic state legislators sued Republican Gov. Terry Branstad regarding the extent of the governor’s veto power.
10 Photos: Nate Boulton talks with the Register editorial board
Sen. Nate Boulton, Democratic candidate for governor, talks with the Register editorial board Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in Des Moines. Michael Zamora, Michael Zamora/The Register
Sen. Nate Boulton, Democratic candidate for Iowa governor, talks with the Des Moines Register editorial board Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in Des Moines. Michael Zamora/The Register
Sen. Nate Boulton, Democratic candidate for governor, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in Des Moines. Michael Zamora, Michael Zamora/The Register
Here is a look at the rise and fall of Boulton's run for governor:
SEPTEMBER 2015: Boulton announced his candidacy for an open Iowa state Senate seat in 2016. The seat covers eastern Des Moines and Pleasant Hill.
NOV. 8, 2016: Boulton of Des Moines defeated his two opponents for the vacant seat in the state’s District 16 Senate race with 60 percent of the vote.
EARLY 2017: First-term senator Boulton attracted publicity during the legislative session by railing against GOP moves to curtail collective bargaining and rollback legal protections for injured workers.
MAY 2017: Boulton announced his governor candidacy. In an interview with the Register at that time, Boulton pitched himself as an advocate for working families who would prioritize support for education and worker training.
JULY 2017: Boulton earned the endorsement of AFSCME Council 61, the state’s largest public union.
NOVEMBER 2017: Democratic activists and operatives identified Boulton, along with rival Fred Hubbell, as front-runners ahead of the June 5 primary.
JANUARY 2018: Boulton launched a “six-figure” TV ad buy, marking an escalation in his bid for the Democratic nomination.
State senator Nate Boulton is set to air a new campaign video in his bid for Iowa Governor.
MAY 8, 2018: Boulton met with the Register editorial board where he discussed tax cuts, Medicaid and education. (Read the full report: 'Election to determine the soul of our state': Democrat Nate Boulton's visit to the Register)
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MAY 19, 2018: A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll showed Boulton trails Hubbell the race for the Democratic nomination — 31 percent of likely primary voters said they’d support Hubbell and 20 percent said they'd support Boulton.
MAY 23, 2018: The Register reported three women accused Boulton of sexual misconduct. One woman told the Register that Boulton repeatedly grabbed her buttocks at a bar in 2015. Two others said when Boulton was in law school more than a decade ago, he rubbed his clothed crotch against them, pressing his erect penis into their thighs.
Listen as Sen. Nate Boulton, Democratic candidate for governor, reacts to the sexual misconduct allegations in an interview with the Register. Michael Zamora, mzamora@dmreg.com
Boulton did not deny the allegations. In a sit-down interview with the Register, he issued a public apology: "All I can say is that if I crossed a line and people feel that way, I apologize. I apologize publicly, and I offer an apology directly.”
Listen as Sen. Nate Boulton, Democratic candidate for governor, offers his perspective on allegations of sexual misconduct. Michael Zamora, mzamora@dmreg.com
In the wake of the allegations, multiple Democratic leaders and candidates — including front runner Hubbell — and former Boulton supporters called for him to drop out of the governor's race.
MAY 24, 2018: Boulton suspended his campaign for governor. Boulton's name will still appear on Election Day ballots, which have already been printed. Early voting began May 7, and 13,668 Democrats have already cast ballots in the primary.
Sen. Nate Boulton said he won't leave the Senate months after stories of inappropriate sexual conduct forced him to suspend his gubernatorial campaign. Des Moines Register
THE FALLOUT: Senate Democratic Leader Janet Petersen also called for Boulton to quit the Senate, while Boulton supporters look to other Democratic candidates.
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Review: Hyper Light Drifter
2016-04-04 15:30:00by Nic Rowen
Last days in a dying world
The post-apocalypse is the new WWII -- the overused, thoroughly played-out, exhausted setting that too many games and movies muck around in. We've seen it all: zombies, mutants, raiders, and hell, even dinosaurs. It's hard to make the end of the world interesting again. But, Hyper Light Drifter manages to find a way.
Set on just the wrong side of an apocalyptic event, it brings beauty, style, and mood to the end of the world. A longing vision of the end times through the lens of idealized 8- and 16-bit games. A kind of heartbreaking sting that is at once nostalgic and completely new. The end of Hyper Light Drifter's world is more than interesting, it's downright captivating.
Hyper Light Drifter (PC [reviewed], PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One)
Developer: Heart Machine
Publisher: Heart Machine
Released: March 31, 2016 / TBA (PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One)
Hyper Light Drifter sets the player off to explore a dying world without much direction. After waking up in a quaint hamlet set square in the center of the map, a tool-tip may nudge you towards the north, but there isn't any reason you can't go west, or east, or south, or just hang out in the village and marvel at the character and design of its shopkeeps. You're not expected to know where to go; the game delights in that uncertainty.
From the macro-level of not really understanding the critical path, or even your overall goal, to the micro-level of discreet portions of stage design, exploration is key. Hidden paths, tricky routes, and invisible platforms abound, and it's best to embrace the wandering mentality early. Like some cheap Robert Frost knock-off, you'll often be presented with two, three, four paths (and an invisible bridge) at once, and sorry, but you could not travel them all. Not right away anyway. You'll be back eventually. There is no penalty for backtracking, and getting around the world is easy with centrally located fast-travel points in every area.
The backtracking never feels like a burden because this is a game to take your time with -- to explore and really soak in the splendor and beauty of its design. The visual presentation of Hyper Light Drifter is second to none.
Honestly, you can't take a bad screenshot of this game. Every single frame is a painting. The vibrant colors, intricate anarcho-future design of the settings, and super-detailed character spites grab the eyeballs and never let go. Hyper Light Drifter revels in its style, taking frequent breaks from the action just to bask in a glorious vista, some sad tableaux of an ancient broken robot in a forest, or a disturbing massacre of a primitive tribe. Even the menus and shops ooze with style. Every single image in the game is positively gorgeous.
The soundtrack from Disasterpeace is every bit a match for the impressive visuals. Much of it is moody and atmospheric, with sad stray notes and the occasional punch of percussion punctuating ominous synth humming. It's all very isolating and spooky, the kind of music fit for wandering around a dead person's house (which I imagine is the intended effect, given the wrecked nature of Hyper Light Drifter's world).
It all blends together to create one hell of a mood. Which is good, because that mood does most of the narrative heavy lifting.
No words are exchanged in Hyper Light Drifter. There are short vignettes, troubling visions, and one-sided, pictographic conversations from the few friendly faces in the world, but no words. Everything is impressionistic and dreamy, expecting the player to fill in the gaps and supply their own ideas. World details and astoundingly beautiful pixel art tell small localized stories here and there, but the overarching plot is shrouded in mystery. What happened to the world? Why are you following this Anubis look-alike dog? Who is the man is the mask? Is he you?
By the time I saw the credits roll (roughly seven hours of game time), I had more questions than answers. Maybe they're in there somewhere, tucked away in the many secrets I failed to unlock, or the New Game+ mode I've yet to tackle. I can't be sure, but I doubt it. Hyper Light Drifter doesn't seem particularly interested in answering those questions, it just wants them to occupy a spot in your brain; to stake out a little encampment in your mind, and in turn leave a part of yourself in its melancholic neon world. This is an arrangement I am perfectly happy with.
The world may be dying, but that doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. Combat in Hyper Light Drifter is fast, fun, and occasionally frustrating. I often found myself alternating between two extremes. Sometimes, I would clear out a room with a showy display of expert swordsmanship and dodge-dashing so beautiful it could be fit for a ballet. Other times, I'd make an embarrassment of myself, with panic-stricken flailing and lots of luck keeping me just this side of the grave. It all depends on your skill and flow. Don't take that first hit and things usually go fine. But as soon as you start getting knocked around, the situation rapidly deteriorates.
Fighting involves the careful management of skills and abilities. The three-hit sword combo is (of course) the bread-and-butter of your arsenal, but knowing when to use your firearms (and which one to use, and when to quickly blind fire in a general direction, and when to sit for a second and aim, and so on) is crucial to soften up big enemies and pick off snipers.
The dash-dodge move must become second nature. Knowing its exact length and growing comfortable with aiming it anywhere is a skill that will serve you well. Bullets, bombs, ninja stars, and rabid mutant hounds are not your only worry -- disappearing ground and gaps in the floor provide just as much as hazard as any foe -- and it is important to be able to reposition yourself at a second's notice.
The ability to sock away health packs and heal on command may seem forgiving, but when contending with waves of manic enemies leaping on you from all sides, just creating the space and time needed to shove a syringe in your heart can be an accomplishment all on its own. Having a full supply of health packs at the ready is never a guarantee of victory when death can happen so quickly.
Thankfully, there are items and power-ups to collect, but don't get too excited. Each upgrade is purchasable in the hub town and requires golden credit chits to unlock. Each chit is acquired by painstakingly assembling them out of four smaller chits found in the wild (think heart containers in Zelda). Even with a diligent eye, you won't find enough to get every upgrade you want.
Upgrades run the gamut from the boring but undeniably useful (extra health pack storage in your inventory) to heavily skill-based tools that you need to hone before seeing a benefit. Chain-dashing is a privilege, not a right. Even after you unlock it, you'll want to practice the exact timing necessary to string together multiple dashes if you want to get the most out of it. The bullet-reflecting sword upgrade is handy, but you still need to be on point with your timing if you don't want to eat them yourself.
This is an old-school game. Dying several times in a row won't unlock a Chicken Hat or easy mode option. If you're stuck against a boss (likely to happen, since the bosses are waking nightmares), don't bother waiting on a miracle to come, or for some secret technique or new item to allow you to turn the tables and suddenly make it a cakewalk. No. In Hyper Light Drifter, you have to eat your fucking broccoli and ask for seconds. You have to pile on the muscle, learn the patterns, and take your lumps. As it was, so it is.
The sternness of the game and its refusal to compromise on its difficulty may be a stumbling block to some. Even the great beast Dark Souls, sitting on its throne of defeated players and broken controllers, often gave players an out: a way to cheese the hardest sections -- slinging arrows from an unreachable nook, iron skin and lightning weapons, a hornet ring and single lucky parry to take down the end boss. If there is any cheese in Hyper Light Drifter, I didn't find it.
There are people who will find that prospect thrilling. There are people who won't. I'm expecting Hyper Light Drifter to be a divisive game. There are going to be people who mark the lack of a coherent story in favor of mood and atmosphere as a cop-out. There are going to be people who sign up for the eyeball-pleasing visuals who get stuck at the first boss they meet and grow to resent the game. There are even going to be those annoying people who insist it's too easy and they were disappointed.
But that's not me. Mood and atmosphere can carry me a long way, and I adored every second I spent in Hyper Light Drifter's world. The combat and movement often left me slack-jawed and giddy, a perfect homage to the '90s RPGs that obviously inspired Heart Machine, while still feeling completely fresh and constantly surprising.
I don't need all the answers if the questions are interesting enough. And if Hyper Light Drifter is anything, it's interesting.
[This review is based on a retail build of the game provided by the publisher.]
Hyper Light Drifter reviewed by Nic Rowen
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A New Home for the Classic Toy: Lego House in Billund
The Lego House stands, literally, for the endless possibilities of Lego bricks and for the philosophy of the company. In the place of the old town hall in the Danish town of Billund, 21 white blocks now rise and offer space for play, the joy of experimentation and creativity.
Client: Lego
Architect: BIG
Location: Billund (DK)
Text: Sulafa Isa
At the centre of the building, the architects from BIG have developed a large urban square measuring 2,000 m². Bound by free-standing cubes, it displays an open, inviting character and is well-lit from all sides. Various urban uses such as a café, restaurant, Lego store and conference rooms mean that the square on the ground floor will serve both as a meeting place and as a place to spend time; it can also be used as a shortcut. Above the central square, overlapping cubes have been stacked to form an exhibition tour.
The colour scheme is based on the classic Lego colours. Divided into zones, each colour symbolizes a particular aspect of children’s learning processes: green stands for social skills, yellow for emotional capabilities. Here, visitors of all ages have the opportunity to gather interactive experience, live out their imagination and immerse themselves in the Lego cosmos.
The top of the complex is home to the Masterpiece Gallery, a collection of Lego creations. The gallery was built to the proportions of a 2 x 4 Lego brick and features eight round skylights that echo the shape of those typical Lego studs. The roof of the Masterpiece Gallery offers visitors and residents alike a 360-degree view over Billund. Some of the other roofs in the complex can be reached via two large outdoor stairways in a pixelated look: these also work as an urban stage.
The proportions of the Lego bricks appear in the design of the entire built structure. For instance, the façade and steps are clad with glazed ceramic tiles in the same scale.
Photo: Kim Christensen
Graphic: BIG Architects
Section, Graphic: BIG Architects
Bjarke Ingels Group Denmark Billund lego exhibition BIG
Work in a toy castle: Lego is building a new office complex at its headquarters
A Jutting Connection: Design Centre in Mons
Designed by Pritzker prize-winners: Museum extension in Portugal
Unsuspected Traces of the Romans: Museum Staging in Barcelona
An Indoor Playground for Big and Small: Ku.Be by MVRDV
A Floating Work of Magic: 17 Screens by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
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RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist
Rose Etherington | 24 July 2008 7 comments
The six shortlisted buildings for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2008 were announced last week.
The shortlisted projects are:
Accordia, Cambridge by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios /Alison Brooks Architects/Macreanor Lavington (above)
Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena Station, Amsterdam, Netherlands by Grimshaw/ARCADIS Architecten (below)
Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Manchester by Denton Corker Marshall (top image)
Nord Park Cable Railway, Austria by Zaha Hadid Architects (fourth image)
Royal Festival Hall, London by Allies and Morrison (fifth image)
Westminster Academy at the Naim Dangoor Centre, London, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (sixth image)
The £20,000 annual prize is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. Last year's winner was David Chipperfield's Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, Germany. See our story about the building here.
The winner will be announced on 11 October.
Here's some more information from RIBA:
Contenders for the RIBAs prestigious Stirling Prize 2008 announced
A pioneering court building in Manchester, a dramatic Cable Railway in Austria, the restoration of London's Royal Festival Hall and the vibrant Westminster Academy in London are among the six buildings which have made it onto this year's shortlist for The RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects' Journal.
William Hill are again offering odds on the shortlisted buildings. The six buildings competing for this year's title are:
Accordia, Cambridge by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios /Alison Brooks Architects/Macreanor Lavington (odds: 5/1)
Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena Station, Amsterdam, Netherlands by Grimshaw/ARCADIS Architecten (odds: 9/2)
Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Manchester by Denton Corker Marshall (odds: 7/2)
Nord Park Cable Railway, Austria by Zaha Hadid Architects (odds: 4/1)
Royal Festival Hall, London by Allies and Morrison (odds: 5/1)
Westminster Academy at the Naim Dangoor Centre, London, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (odds: 3/1)
The RIBA Stirling Prize jury, which will visit all six shortlisted buildings and then meet for a final time on the day of the presentation to pick the winner, comprises architecture specialists and lay judges from the arts. The 2008 judges are Gordon Murray – architect, Murray Dunlop Architects; Shelley McNamara – architect, Grafton Architects; Ben van Berkel – architect, UN Studio in the Netherlands; Kieran Long – Editor, The Architects' Journal and Lauren Laverne – presenter of BBC's The Culture Show.
Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Manchester by Denton Corker Marshall
The Manchester Civil Justice Centre is the largest court building to be built in the UK since the Royal Courts of Justice. This pioneering new building separates civil and criminal justice systems, creating a new civic building that is open and accessible. The working courts and offices are expressed as rectilinear forms, articulated at each floor level. The building is an elegant and beautifully executed response to a complex brief that has made a significant contribution to the regeneration this part of Manchester.
The architectural expression and resolution of the environmental design sets this building apart. Environmental sustainability has been integrated into the design from the start; natural ventilation to all areas and a mixed-mode ventilation system serving the court rooms contributes to the BREEAM rating of 'Excellent'.
Accordia, Cambridge by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios /Alison Brooks Architects/Macreanor Lavington
This is high density housing at its very best. Beautifully thought-through houses are linked by a series of public, semi-public and private but visible open spaces, making the whole development a joy to walk through.
Houses and flats have good-sized, well-proportioned rooms with views out ranging from the urban views to rural pasture. This development proves that good modern housing sells, that a committed local authority can have a very positive influence on the design, that a masterplan with a range of architects can be successful and that the very best architecture does not need to rely on gimmicks. This will be a project that will be much referred to and used a future case study.
Royal Festival Hall, London, by Allies and Morrison
The Festival Hall has been restored to its original elegance and vitality. Rick Mather's masterplan for the South Bank identified the potential for an office building between the hall and the railway line, which was the masterstroke at the root of the transformation. By moving all the administrative offices into this new office building, Allies and Morrison were able to liberate many of the internal spaces previously used as offices.
They have restored the legibility and essence of the original architecture and re-established the Festival Hall as a major international venue. On the river façade, a dingy service road has been transformed into an elegant parade of restaurants and shops. With landscaping by Gross Max, the river terrace is proving to be a successful urban space.
Westminster Academy at the Naim Dangoor Centre, London, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
The Academy provides a striking presence ringed by the Westway, the railway and high rise local authority estates. To enter the building you arrive in a generous open area, an inner courtyard that rises up through the building.
The basic organisation is teaching and support spaces around the edges with a large full height court at the centre. The arrangement allows high levels of visibility for both staff and students. The graphic signage contributes a level of spirited corporate identity that traditional schools lack.
Externally the treatment of the façade, using green banded aluminium panels produces a building of very singular identity that suggests a commercial rather than institutional user. The staff and governors who were highly involved in the development of core ideas are immensely excited and proud of their building.
Nord Park Cable Railway, Austria by Zaha Hadid Architects
A new railway line has been built to connect the mountain village of Hungerburg with the centre of Innsbruck. It will be used by tourists to access high slopes, connect villagers to the urban area.
The construction of the railway is a considerable achievement in its own right. The architects worked closely with the rail engineers to produce station buildings that would appropriately celebrate the entire infrastructure. Zaha Hadid Architects designed all four stations along the route. The designs are all variations on a suite of parts made up of concrete station platforms, lifts, stairs and sensuous protective canopies. The key relationship within each composition is between the concrete which forms a supporting platform, and the over-sailing canopy that acts as a heraldic signal to announce the presence of the station.
The base can be read as a moraine, connected to the earth but given form by a glacier. The canopy can be imagined as like the glacier itself, a changeable, luminous monolith curved as if shaped by melt water. The construction of the three dimensionally curved glass forms is an achievement of great virtuosity.
The construction of the three dimensionally curved glass forms is an achievement of great virtuosity. In the development of Zaha Hadid's architecture from drawing to construction, this project represents a milestone in achieved form.
See our previous story.
Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena Station, Amsterdam, Netherlands by Grimshaw/ARCADIS Architecten
With the tracks above ground (and given an extra two metres height in the development of the design) the opportunity has been taken to make a real difference at ground level. To the north/west a very broad promenade has been established to the Ajax Stadium, which attracts huge crowds, and a bus station sitting effortlessly under the tracks establishing the station also as a place of interchange.
The architectural key to the project is the interpretation of the gaps between the tracks and the ways in which these have been transformed to make lofty and enjoyable public spaces between the ground and the platforms above, linked diagonally with escalators , vertically by glazed lift towers, horizontally by the platforms themselves. The arriving and departing trains and the leisurely procession of passengers make for a remarkable piece of drama.
The RIBA is proud to have Autodesk, Buro Happold and SIV Architectural Career Management as Associate Sponsors of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2008.
The RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects' Journal is the UK's most prestigious architectural prize and is awarded annually to the architects of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. The RIBA awards programme was re-organised in 2007 in a pyramid structure. The RIBA Awards are judged and presented locally and the the RIBA National Awards are judged and presented nationally. The RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist is selected following further visits to winners of the RIBA National Awards and of RIBA European Awards for buildings in the rest of the EU.
From 2008 the RIBA Stirling Prize becomes a 'built or designed in Britain' prize, for which only buildings in the UK designed by RIBA chartered members and International Fellows, or buildings in the rest of the EU by practices whose principal office in the UK, will be eligible.
Photography credits, from top:
MCJC, Tim Griffith
Accordia, TimCrocker
Bijlmer Station, Ger Van Der Vlugt
Norpark Cable Railway, Hélène Binet
Royal Festival Hall, DennisGilbert
Westminster Academy, TimSoar
MCJC, Daniel Hopkinson
Accordia, Tim Crocker
Royal Festival Hall, Dennis Gilbert
Westminster Academy, Tim Soar
Westminster Academy, Matt Chisnall
Norpark Cable Railway, Roland Halbe
Bijlmer Station, Mark Humphreys
BijlmerStation, Mark Humphreys
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Berlin 2005 – wissenschaftliches Programm
EP: Extraterrestrische Physik
EP 15: Extrasolare Planeten
EP 15.3: Vortrag
Mittwoch, 9. März 2005, 09:15–09:30, TU BH349
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Plasma Interactions in Extrasolar Planetary Systems — •Sabine Preusse1, Andreas Kopp1,2, Jörg Büchner1, and Uwe Motschmann3 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau — 2Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum — 3Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Braunschweig
One of the most important discoveries during the last decade are extrasolar planets. A striking feature of many extrasolar planetary systems is the close vicinity of the planets to their stars. This implies interaction features between star and planet which may be considerably different to those known from the solar system. One outstanding example is the ”hot spot” which moves with the orbital period of the companion planet in the chromosphere of HD 179949. In order to gain insight into the processes involved and to possibly make predictions for future observations, we aim at modelling some kind of magnetic interaction between star and planet. For this we assume that the stellar wind plays an important role in such extreme planetary systems. In order to take it into account, we model the stellar wind environment with the magnetohydrodynamic description of Weber & Davis. The results of these computations are then used as an input model for 3D simulations of the stellar wind interaction with possible planetary magnetospheres in the framework of resistive magnetohydrodynamics.
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Charlotte Keatley
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Acts: 2. Scenes: 22. Roles: Male (2) , Female (3) , Neutral (0)
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A young woman on the eve of her thirtieth birthday returns to her parents’ home in the sweeping hills of the Peak District. But the house is full of memories, and down by the reservoir she hears a voice from a drowned village. In time, every secret must come to the surface.
In her introduction, playwright Charlotte Keatley says: 'I've tried to write a play about the way we all carry damage that has happened to people in our families – for generations – until the story is let out and the hurt is acknowledged and can be released. There seems to me a deep parallel between this and the way we treat the earth we live on.'
Our Father was commissioned by the Watford Palace Theatre, and first performed there in 2012.
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Posts for: August, 2017
By Steven M. Erlandson, DDS
Tags: orthodontic treatment anchorage devices
Braces are a common part of many teenagers’ life experience — but not every bite problem is alike. Sometimes, there’s a need for accurately moving only a few teeth while making sure others don’t. This is where Temporary Anchorage Devices (TADs) can help streamline that effort and even reduce treatment time.
Orthodontics wouldn’t work at all if we didn’t already have a natural tooth movement mechanism in our mouths. That ability rests with the periodontal ligament, a tough, elastic tissue between the teeth and the bone that firmly attaches to both with tiny collagen fibers. Though quite secure in holding teeth in place, the ligament attachment also allows teeth to move in response to changes in the bone and jaw structure.
Braces are made of brackets cemented to tooth surfaces through which tiny wires pass. The wires are anchored, usually to other teeth or groups of teeth, and tightened to apply pressure against the other teeth. The ligament does the rest: as the teeth are “pressured” to move in a certain direction, new bone, ligament and an anchoring substance known as cementum forms behind it to secure the tooth in its new position.
The anchorage teeth are not intended to move. In some situations, though, it’s difficult to keep them from not moving — much like trying to keep a boat anchor from not dragging through sand on the sea bottom. TADs help alleviate this problem: it’s a mini-screw or mini-implant that’s temporarily placed in the jawbone to which the tension wire can be secured. They’re placed in the best positions for isolating the teeth that need to be moved without compromising the position of nearby teeth that don’t.
With the site numbed with a local anesthetic, we install the TAD through the gum tissue into the bone with a special device; their screw-shaped design holds them securely in place. They’re then removed when the orthodontic treatment is complete.
While a simple procedure, precise placement requires collaboration between the orthodontist and the oral surgeon or dentist who installs them. They also need special attention during daily hygiene to keep them clean. Still, with difficult bite situations they can help bring about the right outcome — a straight and beautiful smile.
If you would like more information on orthodontic treatment options, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article “What are TADs?”
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During his former career as a professional footballer (that's a soccer star to U.S. sports fans) David Beckham was known for his skill at “bending” a soccer ball. His ability to make the ball curve in mid-flight — to avoid a defender or score a goal — led scores of kids to try to “bend it like Beckham.” But just recently, while enjoying a vacation in Canada with his family, “Becks” tried snowboarding for the first time — and in the process, broke one of his front teeth.
Some fans worried that the missing tooth could be a “red card” for Beckham's current modeling career… but fortunately, he headed straight to the dental office as soon as he arrived back in England. Exactly what kind of treatment is needed for a broken tooth? It all depends where the break is and how badly the tooth is damaged.
For a minor crack or chip, cosmetic bonding may offer a quick and effective solution. In this procedure, a composite resin, in a color custom-made to match the tooth, is applied in liquid form and cured (hardened) with a special light. Several layers of bonding material can be applied to re-construct a larger area of missing tooth, and chips that have been saved can sometimes be reattached as well.
When more tooth structure is missing, dental veneers may be the preferred restorative option. Veneers are wafer-thin shells that are bonded to the front surface of the teeth. They can not only correct small chips or cracks, but can also improve the color, spacing, and shape of your teeth.
But if the damage exposes the soft inner pulp of the tooth, root canal treatment will be needed to save the tooth. In this procedure, the inflamed or infected pulp tissue is removed and the tooth sealed against re-infection; if a root canal is not done when needed, the tooth will have an increased risk for extraction in the future. Following a root canal, a tooth is often restored with a crown (cap), which can look good and function well for many years.
Sometimes, a tooth may be knocked completely out of its socket; or, a severely damaged tooth may need to be extracted (removed). In either situation, the best option for restoration is a dental implant. Here, a tiny screw-like device made of titanium metal is inserted into the jaw bone in a minor surgical procedure. Over time, it fuses with the living bone to form a solid anchorage. A lifelike crown is attached, which provides aesthetic appeal and full function for the replacement tooth.
So how's Beckham holding up? According to sources, “David is a trooper and didn't make a fuss. He took it all in his stride." Maybe next time he hits the slopes, he'll heed the advice of dental experts and wear a custom-made mouthguard…
If you have questions about restoring damaged teeth, please contact our office to schedule a consultation. You can read more in the Dear Doctor magazine articles “Trauma and Nerve Damage to Teeth” and “Children's Dental Concerns and Injuries.”
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Kimberley-born Kyle Eaton, left, with Ben Kent and Daryll Sidney, comedy partners in new web series Off the Ball.
Ed Dingwall
Published: 16:55 Saturday 22 June 2019
An up-and-coming comedy performer from Kimberley has just kicked off a new web series about the funny side of football agents.
Kyle Eaton, aged 32, is hoping that Off the Wall will help earn him a transfer to comedy’s premier league, following his previous success with YouTube series The Age of Enlightenment.
Kyle said: “The feedback we got from Enlightenment suggested broadcasters aren’t looking for sketch shows at the moment.
“Our aim is to work in television, so we’ve developed something like a short form sitcom.
Written and produced with partners Ben Kent and Darryl Sidney, the nine episode series debuted online last week to coincide with the summer football break when transfer speculation heats up.
Kyle said: “There isn’t much comedy about football, and agents are an angle with a lot of scope for humour.
“They’re the people who are always putting out fires behind the scenes.”
Kyle’s main experience of the game comes from regular trips to watch Ilkeston Town with his dad, but his comedy skills have been honed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
He said: “The other two lads are big fans of Arsenal and Manchester United, so they’ve got all the hardcore references covered.
“I try to be the one who makes sure it will be funny for people who don’t follow football too. The reaction has been really positive so far.”
To watch the series and get updates on new episodes, see fb.com/offtheballcomedy.
Bumper season of theatre treats coming up at Nottingham Playhouse
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Law enforcers were injured as a result of clashes with residents of the Tavush Region of Armenia, who blocked the road and demanded to allow them cutting down trees in the forest of Dilijan.
Kadyrov copies Putin's practice of manual ruling
Authorities of Chechnya are promptly solving residents' problems voiced out on air of the programme with Ramzan Kadyrov broadcast on the local TV. Kadyrov has entirely copied the practice of "Direct Lines" with Putin, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.
EU and Georgia enter into agreements for 46.6 million euros
On July 11, at the conference held in Batumi, the European Union (EU) agreed to allocate 46.6 million euros to Georgia for programmes to strengthen the security and improve the efficiency of the country's economic management.
Stepanakert resident stops his hunger strike against social problems
Karen Grigoryan, a resident of Stepanakert, met the Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh and officials who promised to fulfill his demands. The man stopped his hunger strike and complained about physical violence from law enforcers.
Putin opposes new sanctions against Georgia
The introduction of new anti-Georgian sanctions will increase tensions in mutual relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated. Mamuka Bakhtadze, the Georgian Prime Minister welcomed this position.
Economists tell about implication for Georgia of Russia's sanctions
The ban on the import of Georgian wine into Russia may lead to export drop by 200 million US dollars a year, Georgian economists believe.
Resident of Stepanakert goes on hunger strike demanding to solve social problems
Karen Grigoryan, a 35-year-old unemployed resident of Stepanakert and a father of two children, has gone on an endless hunger strike, demanding a meeting with Bako Saakyan, the President of Nagorno-Karabakh. He called the solution of social problems as the aim of his action.
Analysts call energy factor decisive in Azerbaijan-Europe relations
The political importance of Azerbaijan for Europe after the commissioning of the TANAP pipeline will grow, Azerbaijani economists believe, whose opinions regarding the profitability of gas transmission projects have divided. The West, because of its energy interests, sacrifices human rights in Azerbaijan, right defenders believe.
Economists link drop in lari exchange rate with protests in Tbilisi
The fall in the lari exchange rate is caused by expectation of major financial losses from the decrease in tourist flow from Russia, the National Bank of Georgia has stated.
Gukovo miners mark three years of their struggle for payment wage debts with a picket
Former workers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Zamchalovsky Anthracite" have elected a representative, who will defend their interests in courts and the prosecutor's office, Gukovo picketers, who marked the third anniversary of the start of miners' protests, have informed.
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Team of Jack Bandera and Brandon Sturtevant win Braintree Junior Fourball
Na Te Crossman
Jack Bandera and Brandon Sturtevant knew the 4-under-par 68 they shot in Tuesday�s Braintree Junior Fourball was good enough to place them in the top four and earn them a gift certificate to the pro shop.
They were also sure it wasn�t good enough to win.
So certain were the Pembroke 18-year-olds, in fact, that they left the tournament before it was over and went to Marshfield�s Green Harbor Beach. That�s where they were when they received a call from Bandera�s father, Jim.
�He said he called the course, and our score was still up there (in first), so we better go back (to Braintree),� Bandera said.
They changed back into their golf clothes and returned to Braintree just in time for Braintree head professional Bob Beach to present them with the David W. Bailey Memorial Cup, which is given to the overall winning team. Bandera and Sturtevant beat Scituate�s Jeffrey Durkin, 17, and Zach Rubenstein, 16, by three strokes.
In the junior division, Hanover�s Matt Deveney, 15, and Marshfield�s Justin Henriksen, 15, fired a 73 to win by two strokes over Brockton 15-year-olds Mike Mason and Bill Kougias.
�There were a lot of good groups still on the course,� said Bandera of why he and Sturtevant left. Among those on the course was two-time defending champ Jonathan Woods of Duxbury, who combined with partner Joey Fitzsimmons to shoot 72 and finish third.
Playing in their first Fourball, Bandera, who attends Thayer Academy, and Sturtevant, who recently graduated from Pembroke High, immediately went below par with a birdie on the par-4 fourth. They had their first par save on the fifth, when Sturtevant chipped his ball out of a plugged lie in a green-side bunker to within a few feet, and Bandera made the par putt. After a birdie on the par-5 sixth, Bandera made the shot of the match on the par-5 eighth.
�I was in the trees and I tried to punch it (the ball) out and it hit a tree and fell straight down,� Bandera said. �I had 220 (yards) left, so I hit a 3-iron down the right side of the fairway, over the trees, and it landed on the green.
�I don�t know how it happened.�
�We were walking down the alley (to the par-4 ninth tee) and said to each other, �Let�s get to 4-under through nine,�� Sturtevant said.
Their confidence, however, was put in check on the ninth, when they made bogey. �Instead of four under, now we were two,� Bandera said.
They birdied the par-4 11th and 17th on the back to finish the tournament 4-under.
Bandera has one more year remaining at Thayer, while Sturtevant will attend Stonehill College in the fall.
Deveney and Henriksen, who attended middle school together at Thayer Academy, shot 83 in last year�s Fourball, their first. Armed with a year�s worth of improved skills and knowledge of Braintree�s layout, they vowed to do better their second time around. Their expectations were different. Deveney, who now attends Roxbury Latin, said his goal was to break 80, while Henriksen, still at Thayer, was looking for the win.
The duo started slow, bogeying the par-3 third, par-4 fourth and sixth. But they birdied the eighth to make the turn at 2-over. Both players struggled with their putting.
�We didn�t make a putt outside of six feet,� Deveney said.
They started their back side with a birdie on the par-5 10th, but bogeyed the par-3 12th and par-4 14th to go to 3-over for the tournament. Birdies, however, on the par-3 16th and par-4 17th saved their round and proved to be the difference.
Henriksen and Deveney, who play mostly individual stroke-play events in the summer, said their favorite aspect of the Fourball is playing with a teammate.
�Your teammate can save you,� Deveney said.
�You can go back and forth playing good and bad and still be good,� Henriksen said.
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Digicam Geek » Pentax
Pentax Announces Optio RZ18 With 18X Zoom
PENTAX announced the Optio RZ18 digital compact camera. Featuring a slim, lightweight body, the new model offers a powerful 18X optical zoom lens covering focal lengths from 25mm wide angle to 450mm super-telephoto (in the 35mm format). The Optio RZ18 is the latest addition to the RZ zoom lens series, which provides photographers simple, effortless shooting of a wide variety of subjects and occasions, from travel and landscape to action and spectator sports.
The Optio RZ18 features include:
Generous 18X zoom (equivalent to 25-450mm) with extra wide angle lens captures subjects near and far.
High resolution 16 megapixel sensor for large prints or aggressive image cropping.
Slim footprint for outstanding portability and inconspicuous use.
Multiple PENTAX Shake Reduction (SR) image stabilization options, including sensor-shift SR, for sharp images in any lighting.
Large 3 inch LCD with HVGA resolution (460,000 dots).
Powerful automatic shooting modes such as Auto Picture and scene modes take the guesswork out of great photography.
Creative special effects filters add artistic flair to the common snapshot.
Advanced 9-point autofocus with a 4cm super macro mode.
Face detection for perfectly focused and exposed portraits, includes a dedicated pet recognition feature.
Widescreen HD video in 720p at 30 frames per second.
The Optio RZ18 will available in black, pearl white or metallic orange for $299.95USD in October 2011.
Pentax Optio RZ18 Fact Sheet
18X optical zoom lens with 25mm wide-angle coverage to handle a variety of subjects and scenes
The Optio RZ18 features a high-performance 18X optical zoom lens covering focal lengths from 25mm wide angle to 450mm super-telephoto (in the 35mm format). The extra-wide zoom range captures a wide range of subjects and scenes — from spectacular landscapes to fast-action sports events. It also offers high-quality macro shooting down to just four centimeters from the subject and a digital wide function for an ultra-wide-angle image (equivalent to an image taken with an approximately 19mm lens in the 35mm format) from two separate images. An Intelligent Zoom function further extends the zoom range to approximately 130 times to cover the focal length of an approximately 3250mm super-telephoto lens (in the 35mm format).
Exceptional image quality assured by latest super-resolution technology
With 16 effective megapixels, a high-performance smc PENTAX zoom lens and the advanced image processing system — a system that uses the latest super-resolution technology to optimize image quality through meticulous section-by-section treatment of the captured image — the Optio RZ18 delivers well-defined, high-quality images with extra-fine resolution. Even when images are enlarged to large sizes, the user is assured of sharp, high-resolution prints with edge-to-edge sharpness.
With 16 effective megapixels, a high-performance smc PENTAX zoom lens and the advanced image processing system — a system that uses the latest super-resolution technology to optimize image quality through meticulous section-by-section treatment of the captured image — the Optio RZ18 delivers well-defined, high-quality images with extra-fine resolution.
Multiple Shake Reduction for sharp, blur-free images
With a sensor-shift Shake Reduction (SR) mechanism and Pixel Track SR, the Optio RZ18’s dual shake reduction effectively reduces camera shake to a minimum for more blur-free images even under shake-prone shooting conditions such as when using the telephoto lens or when shooting at sunset or in indoor scenes. Other SR options include traditional high ISO Digital SR and Movie SR for steady video recording.
Extra-large 3 inch LCD monitor
The Optio RZ18 features an HVGA high-resolution 3 inch color LCD monitor. This extra-large monitor provides a clear view of images and menus so photographers easily may check captured images and menu settings. The Optio RZ18 also offers a setting to magnify the letters displayed, by which users can further enhance the legibility of the menus and the operability of the camera.
Auto Picture mode
The Optio RZ18 features the PENTAX-original Auto Picture mode, which automatically selects the most appropriate shooting mode for a given subject or scene by accurately assessing various photographic conditions on and around the subject. This user-friendly mode selects one of 16 shooting modes (including Blue Sky, Sunset, Pet, and many more) and optimizes various camera settings (including sensitivity and shutter speed) for better results with minimal effort.
Upgraded Pet mode for automatic detection of dog and cat faces
The Optio RZ18 features the latest version of the Pet mode, which comes in handy when taking pictures of dogs and cats. This unique mode not only detects the faces of dogs and cats with great accuracy, but it also gives priority to three pre-registered pet faces over unregistered ones, so that users can effortlessly focus on and expose for their own pets when in a group of pets.
High-quality HDTV movie recording
The Optio RZ18 captures beautiful, 720p high-definition-TV-quality movie clips (1280 x 720 pixels).* It also comes equipped with the sophisticated Movie Shake Reduction (SR) mode,** which automatically compensates camera shake during movie shooting with the help of exclusive software. With the Optio RZ18, everyone can enjoy high-quality movie shooting with minimal effort.
* When the Optio RZ18’s AV output terminal is used, movie clips are output as normal image-size data. If the user wishes to play back movie clips at high-definition TV proportions (1280 x 720 pixels), the data must be transferred to a personal computer for playback.
** When the Movie SR mode is selected, the angle of view becomes narrower than normal shooting.
Automatic face detection for beautiful, lively snapshots
The Optio RZ18 features the sophisticated Face Detection AF & AE function. This sophisticated feature instantly and accurately detects as many as 32 faces within the image field, then catches them in sharp focus and optimum exposure in a mere 0.03 seconds — even when some of the faces are tilted or turned away from the camera. To assist the photographer in capturing beautiful, lively snapshots, the Optio RZ18 also comes equipped with other user-friendly features, including:
Smile Capture mode that automatically releases the shutter the moment the camera detects the subject’s smile
Blink Detection function that warns the photographer when the subject’s eyes close at the time of shutter release.
Wireless remote-control shooting using an optional PENTAX infrared remote controllers
Burst shooting of up to 40 images, at a maximum speed of approximately 9 images per second
Digital filters, including Miniature, Toy Camera, and more to add creative visual effects
Choice of three image ratios (4:3, 16:9 and 1:1) to accommodate different shooting applications
D-Range setting to prevent whitewashed (overexposed) and blacked-out (underexposed) areas in an image
Digital Panorama mode to effortlessly create a single panoramic picture from as many as three images
Image viewing, editing and filing software included: MediaImpression 3.1 for PENTAX (Windows version compatible with Windows 7) and MediaImpression 2.1 for PENTAX (Macintosh version compatible with Mac OS X 10.7)
Eye-Fi connected experience: optimized for use with Eye-Fi wireless memory cards.
Pentax Imaging Systems Business Acquired by Ricoh
HOYA Corporation (“HOYA”) and Ricoh Company, Ltd. (“Ricoh”) hereby announce that pursuant to decisions by the President and CEO of HOYA and Representative Director of Ricoh, respectively, HOYA and Ricoh have executed an agreement as of today to transfer HOYA’s PENTAX Imaging Systems Business (the business of developing, manufacturing and selling optical instruments such as digital cameras and replacement lenses, digital camera accessories, security camera-related products, and binoculars) (the “PENTAX Imaging Systems Business”) to Ricoh...
Pentax Adds Four New Lenses To Q System
In addition to the standard lens announced today, PENTAX has announced four accessory Q-mount lenses designed for exclusive use with the PENTAX Q – the world’s smallest, lightest interchangeable lens system camera (ILC). The PENTAX 04 Toy Lens Wide price is $79.95 USD and the PENTAX 05 Toy Lens Telephoto is $79.95 USD...
Pentax Reveals The Pentax Q
PENTAX has announced the PENTAX Q – the world’s smallest and lightest interchangeable lens camera (ILC). The PENTAX Q features a backlit, 12.4 megapixel, 1/2.3 inch CMOS image sensor for beautiful, high-resolution images, with highly efficient light gathering optical construction that assures excellent high sensitivity and low noise characteristics and a high speed readout of image data signals...
Pentax Launches O-GPS1 Unit For Digital SLR Cameras
PENTAX announced the PENTAX O-GPS1 unit designed for recent PENTAX digital SLR cameras. Users may locate destinations using location data stored on recorded images or register/assign destinations by uploading location data created on a personal computing device.*..
Pentax Announces New Infinitely Customizable Optio RS1500
PENTAX announced the infinitely customizable Optio RS1500 digital compact camera. The Optio RS1500 captures beautiful, high-definition movie clips (1280 x 720 pixels)* and features Movie SR (Shake Reduction) mode to automatically compensate for camera shake during movie shooting...
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Digicam Geek » Sony
Sony's DSC-TX55 Cyber-Shot Camera Expands Range Of Creative Options
With an exceptionally slim and stylish design, Sony’s new DSC-TX55 Cyber-shot camera makes it easy to capture any moment with high-quality still photos, full high-definition video and amazing 3D images, providing consumers with the ultimate in creative control of their photos and videos.
Sony DSC-TX55
The DSC-TX55 camera features a range of innovative new technologies, including “By Pixel Super Resolution” technology, which boosts the cameras’ zoom range to a virtual 10x without losing quality at the image sensor’s maximum resolution (16.2 million pixels). The new model is also the first Cyber-shot camera to offer a “Picture Effect” mode, which expands a shooter’s artistic possibilities without the need for editing software.
“Our new DSC-TX55 model redefines what a compact camera can do,” said Yosuke Tomoda, director of Sony Electronics’ Cyber-shot business. “In addition to the newly developed, ultra-thin chassis design, the camera features an incredible combination of features and performance, putting more creativity at users’ fingertips than ever before.”
The TX55 boasts a 16.2 megapixel, highly sensitive Exmor R™ CMOS sensor that delivers incredible image detail and ultra-low picture noise in both still images and Full HD video – even in low light conditions. Also the camera’s hi-speed auto focus can lock onto subject in as little as 0.1 seconds, letting users grab the most fleeting photo moments with ease.
16 Mega-pixel CMOS Sensor with Clear Image Zoom
Just 12.2mm slim (measurement excludes lens cover), which is smaller than the thickness of a standard AA-size battery, the Cyber-shot TX55 is the world’s thinnest camera in its class (among cameras with an optical anti-shake function). The new model captures Full HD AVCHD video clips as well as 16.2 megapixel still images through its innovative and exceptionally thin 5x optical folded zoom lens.
It introduces brand-new ‘Clear Image Zoom’ that boosts magnification without lowering the pixel count in the final image. Exclusive to Sony, ‘By Pixel Super Resolution’ processing further extends the camera’s 5x optical zoom range, allowing full-resolution 16.2 megapixel images with a maximum 10x zoom.
‘By Pixel Super Resolution’ technology also significantly boosts still image quality during movie recording. At a touch of the shutter button, ‘Dual Rec’ grabs detail-packed 12 megapixel-level still photos without interrupting Full HD video shooting.
The DSC-TX55 camera features a range of innovative new technologies, including “By Pixel Super Resolution” technology, which boosts the cameras’ zoom range to a virtual 10x without losing quality at the image sensor’s maximum resolution (16.2 million pixels).
Further, the camera’s back panel is dominated by a super-sized 3.3-inch (8.3cm) Xtra Fine™ OLED wide touch-screen, perfect for showing off photos and movie clips with incredible detail.
Enhanced Creativity and Functionality
The innovative Picture Effect mode broadens the range of artistic options with an exciting palette of in-camera image treatments. Effects can be viewed on the camera screen, allowing users to see the result of a chosen effect instantly rather than during the post-shooting experience.
The full list of seven Picture Effect options includes HDR Painting, Rich-tone Monochrome, Miniature, Toy Camera, Partial Color, Pop Color and Soft High-key.
Newly enhanced with additional electronic image stabilization for vertical and horizontal handshake correction, SteadyShot® image stabilization with Active Mode compensates for handheld camera movements during Full HD video shooting. Users can enjoy crisp, blur-free movie clips at all zoom settings, even when holding the camera while walking.
Great Results Made Easy
The new DSC-TX55 camera makes it simple for users to easily achieve DSLR-like picture quality. Superior Auto mode recognizes a wide range of shooting situations, adjusting exposure and other settings for high-quality images with low noise and high dynamic range.
Intelligent Sweep Panorama mode also features HR (High Resolution) mode, letting users capture breath-taking up to 42.9 megapixel panoramas. Just sweep the camera, then enjoy the results on a connected HD TV, or zoom in using a PlayStation®3 system to reveal the finest details.
3D Still Image captures dramatic 3D photos without the need for a large, bulky stereoscopic lens. With a single shutter press, the camera takes two shots consecutively, using the first image to estimate depth information to create a dramatic three-dimensional still image. Other 3D shooting options include 3D Sweep Panorama mode and Sweep Multi Angle.
Enabling its incredible slimness, the new TX55 camera includes a slot to accept Memory Stick Micro™ (Mark2) and microSD/SDHC flash memory cards. Sony offers a choice of ultra-compact, high quality media in capacities up to 16GB, with Memory Stick Micro™ being enhanced to achieve data transfer speed of up to 15MB/s (fastest among micro memory cards) by carrying the same high performance HX Engine controller used on Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo to fully support the new cameras’ features such as 3D and full HD video shooting. All cards come with free PC software (available via download), File Rescue for quick, easy recovery of deleted or damaged photos and files, and x-Pict Story™ for Memory card that simplifies creation of dazzling slideshows.
The new Sony Cyber-shot™ TX55 camera will be available for about $350 this September at Sony stores, www.sonystyle.com and other authorized retailers throughout the Sony Dealer Network.
Sony Electronics has today introduced another exciting addition to its full-frame α7 lineup, the α7II (model ILCE-7M2). The new mirrorless interchangeable lens camera is the world’s first full-frame camera to feature 5-axis image stabilization, allowing it to compensate for camera movement in five different directions to produce extremely sharp handheld images...
Building on its strong history of innovation in the digital imaging market, Sony Electronics has today announced two additions to their unique line of Lens-style Camera. The new cameras utilize the latest version of Sony’s PlayMemories Mobile application (version 5.0 for Android and iOS devices) to connect wirelessly to a smartphone quicker than ever, converting the bright, large LCD screen of the phone into a real-time viewfinder with the ability to frame shots, adjust zoom, release the camera shutter, start/stop video recordings and control other basic camera settings...
Sony has today introduced the stylish new α5100 camera, a new model packing pro-quality AF performance and image quality into a portable, lightweight package. The α5100 camera is compatible with Sony’s ever-growing assortment of E-mount interchangeable lenses, and uses the same Sony E-mount as the acclaimed α6000, α7, α7R and α7S models, as well as all the previous α ‘NEX’ cameras...
Sony today has introduced the versatile new DSC-WX220 and DSC-W810 cameras to its compact Cyber-shot line, offering consumers a variety of new ways to capture high-quality images and HD videos on-the-go. The new camera also features advanced SteadyShot image stabilization for video, high speed AF for capturing moving subjects swiftly and accurately, and has built-in Wi-Fi functionality for convenient image transfer and sharing with compatible smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android)...
Sony Introduces Cyber-shot RX100 III
Building on its lineup of acclaimed compact cameras, Sony Electronics has introduced a new addition to its popular Cyber-shot RX series – the pocket-sized RX100 III camera. The powerful new RX100 III camera shares the same critically acclaimed 1.0-type back-illuminated 20.1 MP Exmor R CMOS image sensor featured in the RX100 II and RX10 cameras...
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Google hints that its next OS will be called Android Lollipop
Birthday celebrations hint at the name of the firm's next mobile OS.
By Mark Langshaw
Google's next mobile operating system is likely to be called Android Lollipop.
The software was previously revealed under the moniker of Android L, but an animated GIF created for the search giant's 16th birthday has hinted at its full name.
The company posted an image of a huge birthday cake with an array of lollipops on top to mark the day it first announced the amount of pages it has indexed.
Android L is expected to be formally unveiled next month alongside the Nexus 9 tablet and the Nexus 6 smartphone.
Several new features of the OS update have already been revealed, such as improved security and a greater focus on voice controls.
Until 2005, Google celebrated its birthday on September 7 to mark the day that it was first incorporated.
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Users will have to wait for that Android Wear update
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'True Blood' tells fans not to cry in new season five poster
The HBO series releases the official poster for its upcoming season five.
By Kristina Bustos
A new poster for True Blood's season five has been unveiled.
True Blood tells its fans not to cry as the show comes back for 12 new episodes this June.
Last month, the HBO series released a series of three trailers titled 'Waiting Sucks'. The trailers focused on different pairs on the show - Sookie and Alcide, Sam and Luna, and Terry and Patrick - while showing behind-the-scenes footage.
True Blood's lead actors Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer previously announced that they are expecting their first child together.
The couple met on the set of the show and wed in 2010 after dating for two years.
True Blood's fifth season debuts Sunday, June 10 at 9pm ET on HBO.
Watch one of the trailers for True Blood's season five below:
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'True Blood' renewed for seventh season
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Remote-controlled drug delivery implant size of grape may help chronic disease management
Nanofluidic device delivered controlled doses
IMAGE: Remote-controlled implantable nanochannel drug delivery system (nDS) created by nanomedicine researchers at Houston Methodist Research Institute. view more
Credit: Houston Methodist
People with chronic diseases like arthritis, diabetes and heart disease may one day forego the daily regimen of pills and, instead, receive a scheduled dosage of medication through a grape-sized implant that is remotely controlled.
Researchers from Houston Methodist successfully delivered continuous, predetermined dosages of two chronic disease medications using a nanochannel delivery system (nDS) that they remotely controlled using Bluetooth technology. The nDS device provides controlled release of drugs without the use of pumps, valves or a power supply for possibly up to year without a refill for some patients. This technology will be tested in space next year.
A proof-of-concept paper recently published in Lab on a Chip (online June 25) explains how the Houston Methodist nanomedicine researchers accomplished long-term delivery of drugs for rheumatoid arthritis and high blood pressure, medications that are often administered at specific times of the day or at varying dosages based on patient needs.
"We see this universal drug implant as part of the future of health care innovation. Some chronic disease drugs have the greatest benefit of delivery during overnight hours when it's inconvenient for patients to take oral medication. This device could vastly improve their disease management and prevent them from missing doses, simply with a medical professional overseeing their treatment remotely," said Alessandro Grattoni, Ph.D., corresponding author and chair of the department of nanomedicine at Houston Methodist Research Institute.
Grattoni and the Houston Methodist researchers have worked on implantable nanochannel delivery systems to regulate the delivery of a variety of therapies for medical issues ranging from HIV-prevention to cancer. As basic research progresses with the remote-controlled device, the Houston Methodist technology is planned for extreme remote communication testing on the International Space Station in 2020. The team hopes that one day the system will be widely available to clinicians to treat patients remotely via telemedicine. This could provide both an improvement in the patients' quality of life and a reduction of cost to the health care system.
The battery-powered implant contains a microchip that is Bluetooth enabled and relies on wireless communication. To prove the technology worked as planned, the microchip was programmed for three different drug release settings - standard, decreased and increased. With each setting, a specific voltage was applied to a silicon nanochannel within the implant to control drug release.
Current drug delivery devices, such as pain or insulin implants, rely on pumping mechanisms or external ports and typically need refills every couple of months. The Houston Methodist device is implanted under the skin and uses a nanofluidic membrane made with similar technology used in the silicon semiconductor industry. The drug dosage and schedule can be tailored to each patient, and the implant delivers the drugs for many months, even a year, before refills are needed.
According to the CDC, chronic diseases are among the most common, costly and preventable of all medical problems.
Lab on a Chip is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Other Houston Methodist collaborators on the paper were Nicola Di Trani, Antonia Silvestri, Giacomo Bruno, Thomas Geninatti, Corrine Ying Xuan Chua, April Gilbert, Giulia Rizzo, Carly S. Filgueira and Danilo Demarchi. Funding support came from the Houston Methodist Research Institute and the National Institutes of Health (NIH R21GM111544, NIH-NIGMS R01GM127558).
To speak with Alessandro Grattoni, Ph.D., contact Gale Smith, Houston Methodist, at 281.627.0439 or gsmith@houstonmethodist.org. For more information about Houston Methodist, visit houstonmethodist.org. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
For more information: Remotely controlled nanofluidic implantable platform for tunable drug delivery. Lab on a Chip DOI: 10.1039/c9lc00394k. (Online June 25, 2019). N. Di Trani, A. Silvestri, G. Bruno, T. Geninatti, Y. X. Chua, A. Gilbert, G. Rizzo, C. S. Filgueira, D. Demarchi and A. Grattoni.
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Lab on a Chip
DISEASE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
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Sentara Norfolk General Hospital is home to the area's only Level I trauma center and burn trauma unit, the region's premier heart program and the primary teaching hospital for EVMS. Its active cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation, sleep medicine, epilepsy and oncology programs, as well as its heart, lung, kidney and pancreas transplant programs, make Sentara Norfolk General an ideal place for residents to perform their rounds.
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Sentara's Ambulatory Care Clinic provides uncompensated medical care to uninsured or underinsured Norfolk residents. The Ambulatory Care Clinic is a follow-up option for patients recently discharged from Sentara hospitals and emergency facilities. The clinic offers lab services, X-rays, EKGs, specialty clinics and medication assistance programs, which are available to help patients get prescription medications free or at a reduced cost. Trainees rotate in the clinic and work with a multidisciplinary healthcare team to deliver continuity care and maintain patient relations.
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The Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center has 142 acute beds in medicine, surgery, psychiatry and neurology, 234 extended care beds in intermediate medicine, palliative (hospice) care, spinal cord injury and nursing home care and a 294-bed rehabilitative residential care domiciliary for a total of 670 operating beds. Ghent Family Medicine residents participate in psychiatry and surgery rounds at this facility.
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A Identification and the Politics of Identity
The intention of this research area is to study processes and circumstances through which identity becomes a socially relevant and integration-relevant quantity.
In its contrast to the area’s original title, “Cultures of Identity,” the new title signals a move away from self-evident identity-models and towards a form of active and passive identification that is non-completed and often improvised or controversial. Through this shift, we gain a better view of aspects of both performance and choice of membership. Focusing more intensively on self-localization, social interconnection, and the sense of affiliation of individual actors will allow a deeper understanding of the basic openness of processes of identity formation.
Recent social-scientific, historical, and literary research and publications have strongly pointed to personal and collective identity as anything but a stable reference-point for social action, and this for two reasons. In the first place, each person and group is bound up with numerous, often incohesive and even incompatible social relationships; these do not offer a unified, immutable identity-profile. In order to do justice to alternating forms of address—whether determined situatively or through roles—to a certain degree social actors have to behave incoherently, usually spontaneously and without being aware of it. Such behavior is possible to the degree their identity is not rigid but rather fluid and versatile. By contrast, we can use the term “politics of identity” to denote the strategic exploitation of this maneuvering room by collective subjects—a dimension of the theme often discussed in recent literature on social movements and collective constructions of memory.
In the second place, “identity” is consistently being approached not as a quasi-natural condition of the self-consciousness of the person in society, but as the effect of a dramatization of difference. Identity questions are only posed with full acuity in critical phases of transition or conflict; in peaceful situations they tend to remain latent and can become fully irrelevant. For this reason as well, in a counterintuitive manner identity is a situationdependent category. It emerges to the forefront when affiliations come under pressure through a polarization requiring everyone to openly avow their positions.
“Identity” here emerges as something other than a solitary category—as comprised of a range of partial commonalities, similarities, or differences, depending on perspective. It is strongly dependent on where the accent of identification is placed. This opens both subjective and institutional leeway for action, further strengthened by strong parallel semantic elements centered on both equality (all human beings, all believers, all citizens) and difference (between men and women, rich and poor, etc.) being available in many cases, to be mutually balanced off in different ways depending on the situation.
The projects covered by research area A are less centered on the result of fixed identities than on a process of mutable identifications, with the following questions serving as main guidelines:
In which social situations do people make use of “identity cards”? Which actors and procedures play a decisive role in creating a collectively recognized “we”- position? How are models of identification appropriated and made useful, and how are they subverted?
What are the paramount references for defining identity? (Among the range of possibilities: ecopolitical affiliation, formal and participatory rights, linguistic, ethnic, cultural, and religious characteristics, and affiliation prompted by a shared cultural memory or by the projection of a shared future.) What are the possible reasons for a change of reference?
What juridical, administrative, infrastructural, and medial factors play a role in the orientation of collective identities? To what extent do the latter emerge as (often delayed and non-intentional) administrative effects, blueprints for political demarcation and its underlying taxonomies (religious/confessional, territorial, national, ethnic, etc.)? What requirements do they have in respect to transportation and communication technology (Research of Jurij Murašov)?
How transparent are the borders between identity-based inclusion and exclusion? How are affiliative gains and losses weighed against each other on their various social and operative levels? How does collective identity take shape as a “cultural compromise” (A. Wimmer)?
What concepts are at our disposal to move past a rigid dichotomy of the self and the other? How can non-exclusionary concepts such as similarity and commonality be developed into a potential basis for a new grammar of social relations?
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According to a new study of Fact.MR, the gonorrhea therapeutics market will reach ~US$ 970 Mn in 2019, and estimated to register a 4% Y-o-Y over 2018. The gonorrhea therapeutics industry will remain influenced by increased attention on new developments in novel therapeutic compounds or antimicrobials for improving the success potential of future treatment.
There has been a significant rise in the prevalence of gonorrhea that is resistant to components of dual antibiotic therapy – ceftriaxone and azithromycin, which is the only recommended treatment for gonorrhea. In addition, resistance to several other antibiotics apart from dual antibiotic therapy resulted in ‘super gonorrhea’, which has become a buzzword in the gonorrhea therapeutics market. With a slew of promising new antibiotics on the horizon, alongside surveillance, education and preventative measures to stymie prevalence of super-resistant gonorrhea, prospects seem bullish for the gonorrhea therapeutics market.
“As gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted bacterium is increasingly learning to withstand the currently available antibiotics, the infection is making progress in its relentless march towards untreatable status. Growing partnerships between companies and organizations, to develop novel drugs that combat the drug-resistant gonorrhea, are highly likely to complement gains in the market,” says Fact.MR report.
Dual Therapy Remains the Treatment of Choice
The market of gonorrhea therapeutics is likely to grow in parallel with the potentially effective drugs that are currently in pipeline. Growing number of clinical trials and rising investments in healthcare industry will continue to pave lucrative avenues of growth for the gonorrhea therapeutics market. The study opines that dual therapy will remain the treatment of choice for gonorrhea, accounting for ~90% market shares. This falls in line with the current recommended regimen for gonorrhea treatment that includes a combination of two antibiotics, azithromycin, which is given orally, and ceftriaxone, an intra-muscular drug.
According to the study, azithromycin will continue to account for greater gains in the gonorrhea treatment market, closely trailed by the third-generation cephalosporin that are increasing gaining traction. Azithromycin sales for the treatment of gonorrhea are expected to hold ~50% market shares. Sales of third-generation cephalosporin are expected to grow at a rate similar to that of azithromycin in the foreseeable future. As some countries turn to increasing the doses of the recommended gonorrhea drugs in an attempt to overcome the bacteria’s resistance, the demand for macrolide antibiotics and third-generation cephalosporin is likely to grow steadily in coming years.
According to the Fact.MR study, lucrativeness of developed markets – North America and Europe – for gonorrhea therapeutics will endure, primarily underpinned by growing prevalence of STDs and rapidly advancing healthcare infrastructure in these regions. In the US alone, ~1 Mn cases of gonorrhea are reported annually, according to recent studies. Favorable reimbursement policies and government funding to numerous health organizations for the development of drug-resistant gonorrhea treatment will remain the key growth influencers of the market in these regions.
The study further opines that companies in gonorrhea therapeutics market are making bulk investments in building a robust pipeline, while focusing on drug approvals in different regions. However, the overall reluctance of gonorrhea drug manufacturing in line with long regulatory processes and complications associated with eventual antibiotic resistance of drugs could team up against the steady growth of gonorrhea therapeutics market.
This study provides a long-term outlook of the gonorrhea therapeutics market for the period, 2019 to 2029. The gonorrhea therapeutics market is estimated to register a CAGR of ~4 through 2029.
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Flowers, Mack run USF past UCF
South Florida scored at least 30 points for the 16th straight game
Flowers, Mack run USF past UCF South Florida scored at least 30 points for the 16th straight game Check out this story on floridatoday.com: http://on.flatoday.com/2gsVQNT
Matt Saunders, For FLORIDA TODAY Published 5:01 p.m. ET Nov. 26, 2016 | Updated 6:45 p.m. ET Nov. 26, 2016
South Florida quarterback Quinton Flowers (9) runs away from the Central Florida defense on a 62-yard touchdown run during the third quarter of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. South Florida won the game 48-31. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)(Photo: AP)
TAMPA — Turnovers and poor rushing defense were the factors that ultimately led to UCF’s 48-31 loss to USF on Saturday.
The Knights (6-6, 4-4 AAC) were unable to stop the powerful and elusive ground attack of the Bulls (10-2, 7-1 AAC) as USF rushed for 351 yards. The USF duo of quarterback Quinton Flowers and running back Marlon Mack rushed for 163 and 164 yards respectively.
“Our defense has some of the best fighters that I have been around in football and I love the way they fight,” Knights head coach Scott Frost said after the game. “We missed some tackles, you can’t miss four tackles on the long run by Mack because he’s a really good player. I am going to keep impressing on our defense that when something goes wrong, like a turnover, we need to be at our best then and not give up something.”
Turnovers also played a huge role as they tend to do. With the score tied at seven in the first quarter, UCF freshman Jawon Hamilton fumbled an option play deep in UCF territory and the ball was recovered and returned 22 yards by USF defensive end Juwuan Brown for a touchdown.
The Knights could not get the ground game going and were forced to try to get yards through the air. Freshman quarterback McKenzie Milton threw two costly interceptions on pivotal UCF drives in the fourth quarter.
UCF had cut a 17-point USF lead down to seven late in the third quarter but the momentum was stopped in the fourth quarter when the Bulls turned those two interceptions into 10 points.
Central Florida head coach Scott Frost, left, talks to his team during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against South Florida, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (Photo: AP)
“We had our chances against a good football team,” Frost said. “You can’t give them any breaks, we needed the breaks to go our way. When you give them a touchdown on a fumble and you (missed) a chance to recover an onside kick, you cannot do those things and expect to beat a really good team.”
South Florida scored at least 30 points for the 16th straight game.
South Florida running back Marlon Mack (5) stiff arms Central Florida defensive back Shaquill Griffin on a 56-yard touchdown run during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (Photo: AP)
The Knights finished with just 64 total rushing yards on 35 attempts while attempting 47 passes.
Despite the loss, UCF will still be headed to a bowl game in December. The likely destination is the Cure Bowl, which is played in the Citrus Bowl in Orlando.
“We have got to come together as one,” redshirt junior Shaquem Griffin said. “You want your seniors to go out with a bang, you do not want to come off a loss and then lose again. The young guys are going to do whatever it takes to help our seniors get a win.”
Central Florida quarterback McKenzie Milton throws a pass against South Florida during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (Photo: AP)
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A hair transplant is a type of surgical hair restoration technique that involves moving individual hair follicles from a “donor site” to other places that generally lack hair growth. These areas are referred to as the “recipient site”. Although hair transplants are mainly used to treat male pattern baldness, the procedure can also restore chest hair, beard and moustache hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. There are two main hair restoration techniques currently in use today: Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), Direct Hair Implantation (DHI).
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An article by Aman Dua and Kapil Dua reveals that hair transplant procedures are not recommended for patients suffering from spot baldness, patients with insufficient hair at the donor site (the back of the head) or female patients suffering from diffuse pattern balding, as this condition tends to affect the donor area as well, making hair follicles unusable.
Preparing for Hair Transplant
The patient should stop the intake of any soft drugs, alcohol, anti-inflammatory medicine, aspirin, vitamins, supplements and herbs at least one week before the surgery.
How is Hair Transplant Performed?
The first stage of the hair transplant procedure is an interview – the doctor will discuss with the patient, define the new hairline and answer any questions that the patient may still have. During the second stage small injections with anaesthesia are administered in the donor area and the surgeon may begin extracting the hair grafts. A tiny micro motor with a micro punch is used for this part of the procedure and since the patient is administered anaesthesia, the whole process is painless. In the third stage of the procedure, the doctor will create tiny incisions in the recipient site and start planting the harvested hair follicles. Once the hair follicles are planted, the area is wrapped in a bandage that prevents infection and bleeding.
Hair Transplant Summary
Local anesthetic
Overnight stay is not required
3 to 7 days after the surgery
Duration of Operation
4 to 12 hours
Patients can usually fly afterwards
Back to Sports
1 week after the surgery
Hair Transplant Recovery
During the recovery period, the patient should follow the doctor’s instructions very carefully and take antibiotics, sleeping pills and pain medications as prescribed. The patient should refrain from scratching, rubbing or combing the recipient area. The patient may wash his or her hair in at least 24 hours after the procedure – very hot water shouldn’t be used but instead the patient may use a gentle stream of lukewarm water and then carefully tap the area with a towel in order to dry it. It may take up to 12 months before the full effects of a hair transplant procedure are noticeable.
Scars after Hair Transplant
The FUE hair transplant procedure leaves tiny scabs in the donor area but these will heal within a week. Other than that, there are no noticeable scars. The FUT hair transplant technique usually leaves a large scar along the circumference of the back of the head.
Hair Transplant Side Effects
Patients may feel itchy sensations and some pain during the first weeks after a hair transplant. During this time some bleeding may occur but it’s unlikely. A study by M.A. Nilforoushzadeh and his team reveals that post-operative effects can include swelling, numbness or infections which can be easily treated with antibiotics.
Hair Transplant Success Rates
The success rate of this procedure depends heavily on the recovery period and the patient’s ability to follow the surgeon’s guidelines. According to a study on hair transplant by Alfonso Barrera M. D., patients usually experience a success rate of 95% after a year – “success rate” refers to hair growing naturally in the recipient area.
Before and After Hair Transplant
The patient must have a clear understanding of the procedure itself and what to expect from it. The immediate post-operative recovery period is essential for the success of the operation but results come into full effect only a year after surgery, when the hair in the recipient area starts growing naturally and is indistinguishable from the rest of the patient’s hair.
Hair Transplant FAQ
How many hair grafts do I need? Generally speaking, around 35 grafts are used for each square centimetre – a consultation is needed to determine the exact number of grafts needed for a hair transplant procedure. Are hair transplant surgery results permanent? Hair transplants last a lifetime as the transplanted hair follicles are resistant to going bald and they start growing naturally in the recipient areas. Some patients may experience slight hair loss in the recipient area as they progress through old age. Does a hair transplant hurt? Since anaesthetic is administered before the procedure begins, a hair transplant is practically painless.
DHI VS FUE VS FUT
FUT Overview
FUT or Follicular Unit Transplant is one of the more traditional hair restoration techniques still in use in certain medical centres around the world. The Follicular Unit Transplant procedure begins with the doctor outlining a thin strip of the scalp from the back of the patient’s head. This area is usually unaffected by alopecia and hair follicles have a higher chance of growing successfully after transplant. The hair follicles are then removed from the strip of scalp with the help of a microscope – they will be later divided into single units containing 1-3 hair follicles. The patient’s scalp is then sewn back together and the implant phase of the procedure can begin. FUT hair transplants are generally more affordable than other hair restoration techniques simply due to the fact that the extraction phase is much quicker but patients who prefer short hair usually opt for a different technique since FUT leaves a long scar along the patient’s back of the head. Patients prone to keloid scarring should opt for a different technique since the scar will be quite noticeable.
FUE Overview
FUE or Follicular Unit Extraction is another established hair restoration technique where instead of a strip of scalp being removed to harvest hair follicles, a punch is used. The punch creates a circular mico-incision around a group of hair follicles or single hair follicle, removing it from the scalp. The Follicular Unit Extraction technique leaves small open holes in the scalp which will heal within a few weeks, leaving tiny white scars once fully healed. Once enough hair follicles are extracted through this method, the surgeon is ready to start implanting them into the desired area. The biggest advantage of FUE over FUT is the minimal scarring after the procedure and the fact that patients can resume their daily activities faster. Unfortunately, FUE is somewhat more expensive than FUT, since this technique is more time consuming. In some cases the survival rate of transplanted hair follicles can be lower with the FUE technique, if the hair follicle roots are affected during extraction. By opting for an experienced hair restoration surgeon, patients can minimise any risks and enjoy a higher survival rate for implanted follicles.
DHI Overview
Direct Hair Implantation is sometimes called a “Micro-FUE” hair transplant since it uses the same basic technique but with some differences. DHI does not cut into the scalp as with FUE, using only very small micro punches with a diameter of 1 mm or less. These small punches are minimally invasive, ensuring no scars are left in the donor area. One of the differences between FUE and DHI is the fact that with DHI the hair follicles are carefully extracted one by one before being transferred to the receiving area. This procedure is always done by a highly trained specialist in order to ensure the best results. The hair follicles are then implanted in the receiving area in a process similar to the FUE technique – a technician will create reception holes in the receiving area before starting to implant the donated hair follicles.
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Molde v Celtic: Kamara hoping to get one over on old acquaintances
Molde striker Ola Kamara hopes to have the last laugh over a couple of old friends when Celtic travel to Norway in Europa League Group A.
Ola Kamara is aiming to help Molde to a Europa League victory over Celtic and enjoy bragging rights over Ronny Deila and Stefan Johansen.
The Tippeligaen side and their Scottish Premiership opponents are unbeaten after the first two matches of the round robin stage, Molde winning at Fenerbahce and drawing with Ajax while Celtic have played out back-to-back 2-2 draws.
Norway international Kamara played under Celtic manager Deila for four seasons at Stromsgodset, where he collected the Tippeligaen title alongside current Parkhead midfielder Johansen in 2013.
And the 26-year-old says going head-to-head with a pair of former colleagues will act as added incentive for the clash at the Aker Stadion.
"There will be extra motivation for the guys when Stefan comes," Kamara told Herald Scotland. "We don't want him to come home and do well.
"We know he is a great player so we need to try and take him out of the game. It will be the same for Nir Bitton.
"For the people of Norway this game is bigger than our first two matches with Ajax and Fenerbahce.
"In the media we always write about how Ronny and Stefan are doing in Scotland.
"Everybody is aware how well they are doing and how Celtic are doing so that's why this is such an important game.
"I will catch up with both of them them after the game and hopefully I will be the one with a smile on my face.
"Ronny is a top guy and it will be nice to see him and Stefan but I'm not thinking about that just now. I'm just thinking about scoring goals and beating them.”
Celtic's Champions League ambitions this season came to an end against Swedish side Malmo but, ahead of their latest trip to Scandinavia, Johansen remains confident that his side are a cut above teams from his homeland due to a higher standard of domestic competition.
"There is a reason why I went from Norway to Scotland," he told the Romsdals Budstikke.
"Celtic are a better team than Molde and the Scottish league is in my eyes a notch up from the Tippeligaen.
"At the same time, I see that teams such as Molde, Rosenborg, Valerenga and Stromsgodset could certainly do well in the Scottish league."
Celtic and Molde are two of the 10 domestic league champions contesting the group stages of this season's Europa League and Deila's men will be keen to improve their defensive record in continental competitions.
The 2-2 draws with Ajax and Fenerbahce mean they have conceded twice in each of their past four European games – something Croatian defender Jozo Simunovic could help to remedy as he targets a return to fitness from bone bruising.
Striker Leigh Griffiths could start for Celtic after featuring for the final half an hour in the weekend win over Motherwell.
Aside from long-term absentee Joshua Gatt, Molde coach Erling Moe has a full squad to choose from.
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Robben yet to hold talks over new Bayern Munich contract
Bayern Munich winger Arjen Robben is in no rush to discuss a new contract despite his deal coming to an end next year.
Arjen Robben says he has had no talks over a new Bayern Munich contract but is "relaxed" over his future.
The experienced winger's deal expires in 2018, by which time he will be 34, and there has been speculation he will retire rather than pen fresh terms.
The former Chelsea and Real Madrid man is yet to be approached by Bayern officials over an extension but he insists it is not on his mind at present.
"I am very relaxed," he told Sky in Germany. "I've not been approached by anyone yet and I am in no rush. I feel good and only focus on football."
100 - Arjen Robben will play his 100th Champions League game. Legend. pic.twitter.com/KnNSZXUMVj
— OptaJohan (@OptaJohan) October 18, 2017
Robben made his 100th Champions League appearance in Wednesday's 3-0 win over Celtic at the Allianz Arena, in which he set up Mats Hummels for his side's third goal.
The former Netherlands international, who retired from international football after his side's failure to qualify for the World Cup, was delighted with the milestone but is more interested in winning the trophy itself.
"It's something special," he said. "If it had not been for a few injuries, I could have made even more.
"I can be a bit proud about this. But it's not about records. I'd rather have another trophy."
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external_control:external_commands
====== External Commands ====== \\ \\ [[external_commands#Master Command|]]\\ [[external_commands#DMX400|]]\\ [[external_commands#Run command / GO|]]\\ [[external_commands#Zone and Groups|]]\\ [[external_commands#Fixture Control|]]\\ [[external_commands#Sequence|]]\\ [[external_commands#Cue - Window|]]\\ [[external_commands#Cue - FastCue button|]]\\ [[external_commands#Submaster|]]\\ [[external_commands#Override buttons|]]\\ [[external_commands#External Control|]] \\ [[external_commands#Smoke|]] \\ [[external_commands#Other|]] \\ \\ \\ Key = Keyboard shortcut\\ Midi = Midi control\\ Etc = Enttec wing\\ Tcp = Tcp/ip\\ Tscn = Touchscreen userinterface 2\\ Send = sendmessage\\ \\ ===== Master Command ====== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Button or Fader ^ |Open Master | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle button | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |"Master Intensity" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |"Toggle blackout" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle button | |"Toggle favorite" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Toggle Freeze" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Fade In" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Master intensity fade | Flash Button | |"Fade Out" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Master intensity fade | ::: | |"Master 0%" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Master intensity snap | ::: | |"Master 100%" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Master intensity snap | ::: | \\ \\ \\ ===== DMX400 ====== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Button or Fader ^ |Open dmx400 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |DMX400 master | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |DMX400 background | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |DMX400 Program Select | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |DMX400 Toggle mode | K | M | | | | T2 | | | |DMX400 Speed | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |DMX400 Blackout | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |DMX400 Full On | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |DMX400 Fade | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |DMX400 FadeTime | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |DMX400 Interval | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |DMX400 Auto Change | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |DMX400 Color Change | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |DMX400 Same Color | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |DMX400 Vivid Colors | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | \\ \\ \\ ===== Run command / GO ===== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Button or Fader ^ |Open Commandline | K | M | | | | T2 | | Toggle | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Command 0 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Flash button | |Command 1 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command 2 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command 3 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command 4 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command 5 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command 6 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command 7 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command 8 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command 9 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command + | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command - | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command / | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command @ | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command DMX | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command Shift | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command CLR | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command BS | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command ENTER | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command History up | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Command History Down | | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | \\ \\ \\ ===== Zone and Groups ==== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Fader or Button ^ |"Zone 1" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Flash Button | |"Zone 2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Zone 3" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Zone 4" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |\\ | | | | | | | | |"Group 1" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |"Group 2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 3" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 4" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 5" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 6" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 7" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 8" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 9" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 10" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 11" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 12" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 13" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 14" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 15" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 16" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 17" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 18" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 19" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 20" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 21" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 22" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 23" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Group 24" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Previous group | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Flash Button | |Next Group | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |One group only | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Select next fixture | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Select previous fixture | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Select even fixtures | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Select odd fixtures | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Select same even fixtures | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Select same odd fixtures | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Toggle all fixtures" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |Locate selected fixtures | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Enable Sound Selected fixtures | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Dis. fixture override | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 7 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 8 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 9 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 10 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 11 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 12 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 13 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 14 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 15 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 16 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 17 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 18 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 19 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 20 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 21 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 22 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 23 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Dis. override group 24 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |\\ | | | | | | | | |"Blackout group 1" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |"Blackout group 2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 3" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 4" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 5" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 6" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 7" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 8" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 9" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 10" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 11" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 12" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 13" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 14" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 15" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 16" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 17" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 18" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 19" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 20" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 21" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 22" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 23" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |"Blackout group 24" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | \\ \\ \\ ===== Fixture Control ===== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Fader or Button ^ |"Open All" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |"Open gobo" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Next gobo" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Gobo shift | | |"Previous Gobo" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Gobo shift | | |"Next gobo2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Gobo shift | | |"Previous Gobo2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Gobo shift | | |"Gobo 1 channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |"Gobo 2 channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"Gobo 3 channel" | | | | | | | |Not implemented yet | |"Gobo Rotation channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |"Gobo 2 Rotation channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |Gobo ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Gobo ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Gobo2 ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Gobo2 ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Gobo3 ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Gobo3 ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |GoboRot ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |GoboRot ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |GoboRot2 ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |GoboRot2 ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |"Open color" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |"Next color" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Color shift | | |"Next color2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Color shift | | |"Previous Color" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Color shift | | |"Previous Color2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Color shift | | |"Color channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |"Color 2 channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"Cyan - Red channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"Magenta - Green channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"Yellow - Blue channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"CTO/Amber" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"White1" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"White2" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |Color ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Color ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Color2 ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Color2 ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Cyan ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Cyan ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Magenta ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Magenta ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Yellow ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Yellow ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |"Open Pan/Tilt" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |"Pan right" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Pan left" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Tilt up" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Tilt down" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Pan right 16" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Pan left 16" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Tilt up 16" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Tilt down 16" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Center" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Pan Lock" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Tilt Lock" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Flip" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Toggle Relative Pan-Tilt" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Pan channel | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 Named Pan 8bit channel in Touchscreen | Fader | |Pan fine channel | | | | | | | Not implemented | | |Tilt channel | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 Named Tilt 8bit channel in Touchscreen | Fader | |Tilt fine channel | | | | | | | Not implemented | | |Pan ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Pan ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Tilt ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Tilt ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Pan16 ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Pan16 ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Tilt16 ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Tilt16 ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |"Open beam" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |"Prism channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |"Prism Rotation channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"Focus channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"Zoom channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"Iris channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |"Frost channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | ::: | |Prism ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Prism ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |PrismRot ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |PrismRotch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Focus ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Focus ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Zoom ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Zoom ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Iris ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Iris ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Frost ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Frost ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |"Open Lamp" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |"Shutter channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 |This one depant one your fixture 0%=Shutter closed\\ 1%=shutter slow 99%=shutter fast 100%=shutter open | Fader | |"Intensity channel" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | Fader | |Shutter open | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Shutter closed | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Strobe Low | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Strobe Med | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Strobe High | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Shutter ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Shutter ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Dimmer ch. +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Dimmer ch. -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Open special / Open Macro | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Open Macro window | Toggle Button | |"Show sliders" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |"Show framing" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | * Named Open in some menu | Toggle Button | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Random Gobo 1 | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Color 1 | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Iris | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Strobe | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Dimmer | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random RGB | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Pan/Tilt | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Gobo 1 by group | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Color 1 by group | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Iris by group | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Strobe by group | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Dimmer by group | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random RGB by group | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |Random Pan/Tilt by group | K | M | E | | | T2 | | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Locate selected fixtures | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Enable sound selected fixtures | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release fixture override | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Disable fixture | | M | | | | | | | |Remove from playback | | M | | | | | | | \\ \\ ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Fader or Button ^ |Release override gobo1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override gobo2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override gobo3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override gobo1 rot. | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override gobo2 rot. | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override color1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override color2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override red | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override green | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override blue | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override amber | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override white1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override white2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override pan | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override tilt | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override iris | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override focus | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override zoom | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override prism | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override Prism rot. | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override frost | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override frost2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override shutter | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override strobe | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Release override intensity | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | \\ \\ ===== Sequence ===== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Fader or Button ^ |Open Create sequence | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Opens Sequence panel | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |New sequence | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Insert scene | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Remove scene | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Add scene | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Open sequence | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Save sequence | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Quicksave | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Save to all | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Undo | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Next scene | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Previous scene | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Play Sequence | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Fade Time +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Fade Time -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |Speed Time +1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value increased | | |Speed Time -1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | DMX value decreased | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Open FX | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | \\ \\ \\ ===== Cue Window ===== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ |"Open cue" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |\\ | | | | | | | | |Release all | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Release all Manual Override | |Disable all buttons | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Disable all Override Buttons | |Disable tap / manual trigger | K | M | E | | | T2 | * Not available in TCP | |Tap Sync | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Master speed | | M | E | T | S | T2 | Fader control, 0 to 255 | |Master spd 100% | | M | | | | | | |Master spd +5% | | M | | | | | | |Master spd -5% | | M | | | | | | |ManualTrigger | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Sound to light Trigger | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |\\ | | | | | | | | |"Sequence 1 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | Fader control, 0 to 255 | |"Sequence 2 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 3 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 4 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 5 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 6 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 7 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 8 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 9 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 10 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 11 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 12 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 13 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 14 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 15 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 16 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 17 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 18 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 19 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Sequence 20 speed" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |"Multiselect" | K | M | E | T | S | | *Named Seq in some menu | |Toggle Sequence 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Toggel Play and Stop | |Toggle Sequence 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 7 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 8 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 9 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 10 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 11 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 12 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 13 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 14 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 15 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 16 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 17 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 18 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 19 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Toggle Sequence 20 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Start Sequence | |Start Sequence 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 7 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 8 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 9 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 10 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 11 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 12 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 13 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 14 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 15 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 16 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 17 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 18 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 19 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Start Sequence 20 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Stop Sequence | |Stop Sequence 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 7 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 8 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 9 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 10 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 11 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 12 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 13 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 14 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 15 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 16 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 17 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 18 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 19 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | |Stop Sequence 20 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | \\ \\ \\ ===== Cue Window - FastCue button ===== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Fader or Button ^ |Cuelist tab 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Flash Button | |Cuelist tab 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Cuelist tab 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Cuelist tab 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Cuelist tab 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Cuelist tab 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Previous cuelist tab | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Next cuelist tab | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |Toggle Cuelist 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 7 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 8 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 9 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 10 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 11 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 12 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 13 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 14 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 15 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 16 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 17 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 18 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 19 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 20 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 21 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 22 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 23 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 24 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 25 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 26 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 27 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 28 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 29 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 30 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 31 | | M | | | | | | ::: | |Toggle Cuelist 32 | | M | | | | | | ::: | \\ \\ \\ ===== Submaster ===== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Fader or Button ^ |"Open Submaster" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Open the SM panel | Toggle Button | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |Submaster global run | | M | | | | | | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Previous submaster tab | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Previoue Tab | Flash Button | |Next submaster tab | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Next Tab | ::: | |"Submaster Page 1" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Page / tab 1 | Toggle Button | |"Submaster Page 2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Page / tab 2 | ::: | |"Submaster Page 3" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Page / tab 3 | ::: | |"Submaster Page 4" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Page / tab 4 | ::: | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |"Toggle Submaster 1" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Run/stop Submaster | Toggle Button | |"Toggle Submaster 2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Run/stop Submaster | ::: | |"Toggle Submaster 3" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Run/stop Submaster | ::: | |"Toggle Submaster 4" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Run/stop Submaster | ::: | |"Toggle Submaster 5" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Run/stop Submaster | ::: | |"Submaster Go 1" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Next Submaster 1 | ::: | |"Submaster Back 1" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Previous Submaster 1 | ::: | |"Submaster Go 2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Next Submaster 2 | ::: | |"Submaster Back 2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Previous Submaster 2 | ::: | |"Submaster Go 3" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Next Submaster 3 | ::: | |"Submaster Back 3" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Previous Submaster 3 | ::: | |"Submaster Go 4" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Next Submaster 4 | ::: | |"Submaster Back 4" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Previous Submaster 4 | ::: | |"Submaster Go 5" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Next Submaster 5 | ::: | |"Submaster Back 5" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Previous Submaster 5 | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 1" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | Fader, 0 to 255 | Fader | |"Subm. Intensity 2" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 3" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 4" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 5" | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |"Subm. Intensity 6" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 7" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 8" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 9" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 10" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 11" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 12" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 13" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 14" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 15" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 16" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 17" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 18" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 19" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | |"Subm. Intensity 20" | | | | | | | Not implemented | ::: | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |Submaster Run 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Run Submaster | Flash Button | |Submaster Run 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 7 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 8 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 9 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 10 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 11 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 12 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 13 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 14 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 15 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 16 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 17 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 18 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 19 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Run 20 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |Submaster Stop 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Stop Submaster | Flash Button | |Submaster Stop 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 7 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 8 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 9 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 10 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 11 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 12 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 13 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 14 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 15 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 16 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 17 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 18 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 19 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Stop 20 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |Submaster toggle 1 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 2 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 3 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 4 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 5 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 6 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 7 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 8 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 9 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 10 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 11 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 12 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 13 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 14 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 15 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 16 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 17 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 18 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 19 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | |Submaster toggle 2 | | M | | | | | ::: | ::: | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |Submaster Go 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Next Submaster | Flash Button | |Submaster Go 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 7 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 8 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 9 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 10 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 11 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 12 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 13 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 14 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 15 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 16 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 17 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 18 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 19 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Go 20 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |Submaster Back 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Previous Submaster | Flash Button | |Submaster Back 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 7 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 8 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 9 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 10 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 11 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 12 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 13 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 14 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 15 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 16 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 17 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 18 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 19 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Back 20 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |Submaster Intensity 1 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | Fader 0 to 255 | Fader | |Submaster Intensity 2 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 3 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 4 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 5 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 6 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 7 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 8 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 9 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 10 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 11 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 12 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 13 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 14 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 15 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 16 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 17 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 18 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 19 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster Intensity 20 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | | \\ | | | | | | | | | |Submaster list Change 1 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | Fader 0 to 255 | Fader | |Submaster list Change 2 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 3 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 4 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 5 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 6 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 7 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 8 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 9 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 10 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 11 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 12 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 13 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 14 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 15 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 16 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 17 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 18 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 19 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | |Submaster list Change 20 | | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | ::: | \\ \\ \\ ===== Override buttons ==== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Fader or Button ^ |"Open Override Buttons" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | Open the Override button panel | Toggle Button | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Overridebuttons tab 1 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Overridebuttons tab 2 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Overridebuttons tab 3 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Overridebuttons tab 4 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Overridebuttons tab 5 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Overridebuttons tab 6 | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Previous Overr. tab | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Next overr. tab | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |"Button 1" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 |*Named "Override" in some menu \\ but only "Button" in Keyboard and TCP.| | |"Button 2" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 3" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 4" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 5" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 6" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 7" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 8" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 9" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 10" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 11" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 12" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 13" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 14" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 15" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 16" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 17" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 18" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 19" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 20" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 21" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 22" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 23" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 24" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 25" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 26" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 27" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 28" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 29" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 30" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | ::: | | |"Button 31" | | | | T | S | |These are button 1 from the second tab *Only in In TCP/IP | | |"Button 32" | | | | T | S | |These are button 2 from the second tab *Only in In TCP/IP | | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |Overridebutton.... | K | | E | T | S | T2 |From 1 to 180 unique buttons as alternative to \\ Tab1, Button1... Tab6, Button30 | | \\ \\ \\ ===== External Control ===== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ |"Lock MIDI input" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Previous MIDI Page | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |Next MIDI Page | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi Page 1” | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi Page 2” | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi Page 3” | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi Page 4” | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi Page 5” | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Shift function” | | M | E | | | T2 | | |“Midi to DMX 1” | | M | | | | T2 |Direct fader control to a dmx channel.\\ The DMX channel no. to control is set in Freestyler\\ external Midi interface setup.\\ Fader value 0 to 255\\ See:[[external_control:command_descriptions:midi_to_dmx|]] | |“Midi to DMX 2” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 3” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 4” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 5” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 6” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 7” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 8” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 9” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 10” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 11” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 12” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 13” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 14” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 15” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 16” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 17” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 18” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 19” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 20” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 21” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 22” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 23” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |“Midi to DMX 24” | | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |\\ | | | | | | | | |“Wing to DMX 1” | | | E | | | |Direct fader control to a dmx channel.\\ The DMX channel no. to control is set in Freestyler\\ external Wing interface setup.\\ Fader value 0 to 255 | |“Wing to DMX 2” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 3” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 4” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 5” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 6” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 7” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 8” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 9” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 10” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 11” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 12” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 13” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 14” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 15” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 16” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 17” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 18” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 19” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 20” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 21” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 22” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 23” | | | E | | | | ::: | |“Wing to DMX 24” | | | E | | | | ::: | |\\ | | | | | | | | |Touchscreen Page 1 | K | M | | | | T2 | | |Touchscreen Page 2 | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |Touchscreen Page 3 | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |Touchscreen Page 4 | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |Touchscreen Page 5 | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | |Touchscreen Page 6 | K | M | | | | T2 | ::: | \\ \\ \\ ===== Smoke ===== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ Fader or Button ^ |Open Smoke | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | Toggle Button | |\\ | | | | | | | | | |"Fog / Smoke" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | | |Fog level | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | | |Fog fan level | | M | E | T | S | T2 | 0 to 255 | | \\ \\ \\ ===== Other ===== ^Command ^ Key ^Midi ^ Etc ^ TCP ^ Send ^ Tscn ^ Comments ^ |"Toggle Joystick Pan/Tilt" | K | | E | T | S | T2 | | |"Enable joystick" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |\\ | | | | | | | | |"Open sound" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Sound To Light trigger | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | |Pause sound2Light | | M | | | | | | |\\ | | | | | | | | |"Show / open output" | K | M | E | T | S | T2 | | \\ \\ ---- \\
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1st Full Look at Ant-Man – Marvel’s Ant-Man Teaser
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The wait’s over! Get your first full, official look at Marvel’s “Ant-Man,” first seen during “Marvel’s Agent Carter”! Watch now and see the movie in theaters July 17!
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Two men held for drug trafficking in Baldwin County
Two New Orleans men were being held in the Baldwin County Corrections Center last week after authorities said they were found with hundreds of Ecstasy pills.
Baldwin County Sheriff's spokesman Maj. Anthony Lowery said a deputy found about 450 pills inside a 2003 Nissan Maxima car driven by Haden Anthony Brown, 21, when it was stopped for speeding on Interstate 65 shortly after 4 p.m. last Saturday.
The pills were found in five small plastic bags, each surrounded by bags of ground coffee stuffed in a crevice between the back seat and trunk. According to Lowery, the drugs were probably worth about $10,000.
Brown and a passenger, Carl Williams, 21, were each charged with drug trafficking.
The men await a court hearing. Bail is set at $1 million dollars each.
Brown and Williams told the deputy they were headed to New Orleans from Atlanta.
"They didn't elaborate on where they had gotten the drugs," said Lowery, who believes the men are probably part of a larger drug ring.
He said authorities also seized a .28-caliber semiautomatic pistol and two loaded magazines that were found in the Maxima's glove box.
Lowery didn't know if Brown or Williams had a lawyer.
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Chelsea to Become Champions Next Year?
Yeah, it doesn’t look good (Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images )
After Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea suffered their latest setback against Bournemouth on Saturday, a new perspective emerged on the internet about how Chelsea to become champions next year.
Instead of commenting the news, let’s just face the theory:
Chelsea will win the league next season 1. Chelsea 2. Derby 3. Nottingham Forest 4. Burnley
— TheSPORTbible (@TSBible) December 5, 2015
Of course it is about the Championship, and it seems that Chelsea actually do everything in order to get engaged in the relegation battle as much as it is possible. Chelsea to become champions in the English second-flyer looks funny know, but if they don’t change something in the coming months, it will become even stickier towards May. They are currently 201.00 (200/1) to relegate at the end of the season at Bet365 Sportsbook.
Though Mourinho was previously confirmed as the Blues manager until the end of the season, gambling news reported that if they would eliminate from the Champions League against Porto on Wednesday, Roman Abramovich would instantly sack his friend. Or let say, “Relieve him from his duties”.
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Real Madrid signed Kovacic for £22.5m
Real Madrid signed Kovacic from Inter, he joined the Blancos yesterday (realmadrid.com)
Real Madrid signed Kovacic from Inter. The Blancos will pay EUR 32 million for the Croatian midfielder plus EUR 3 million in add-ons.
Rafael Benitez added another Croatian central midfielder to his squad, as it was announced that Real Madrid signed Kovacic. Mateo Kovacic will have the opportunity to play alongside his compatriot Luka Modric in Madrid. Since Modric is a key player for Real, he might help Kovacic to settle in at the Bernabeu quickly. Since the new acquisition is eight years younger than him and plays in a position similar to Modric’s role, he might be considered as his successor. Real Madrid are top underdogs to win the Spanish La Liga with odds of 2.75 (7/4) at Bet365. They are third favourites to conquer the Champions League at 6.50 (11/2).
TheGuardian.com: Real Madrid sign midfielder Mateo Kovacic from Inter for £22.5m
It was confirmed by the Spanish mega club on Tuesday that Real Madrid signed Mateo Kovacic. The Blancos pay GBP 22.5 million (EUR 32 million) for the highly rated Croatian midfielder for Italian giants Inter, according to gambling news. Kovacic was signed by Inter in 2013. They bought the player form Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb.
Media reports expect the Milan-based outfit to acquire the services of Ivan Perisic after Real Madrid signed Kovacic. Though experts of gambling facts noted that Wolfsburg-man plays in a slightly different position, Inter might take advantage of the skills of Perisic, who plays with a more attacking mindset.
Will Illaramendi be let go because Real Madrid signed Kovacic? (Photo: express.co.uk)
After Real Madrid signed Kovacic, the Spanish club is due to pay GBP 2.1 million more for Kovacic in add-ons. The Croatian midfielder was also wanted by Liverpool in the summer. However, it turned out that he will join arguably the biggest club in world football. At Real Madrid he will have the opportunity to play alongside his fellow Croatian midfield maestro, Luka Modric.
Internazionale manager Roberto Mancini confirmed that financial fair play forced them to sell Kovacic. He said,“We need to sell Mateo because of financial fair play. We are sorry because he is a good player but those are the rules. Now we can try to sign some other players.”
Kovacic had a tally of five goals in 80 league matches at Inter. He can cover the middle of the park, and is also available to play in front of the backline as a deep-lying playmaker. He is considered as a versatile midfielder, who can adapt to playing on the wings or as an attacking midfielder behind the striker as well. After Real Madrid signed Kovacic, many followers of sports scores expect Los Blancos manager Rafa Benitez to let Asier Illarramendi to join Liverpool.
UEFA.com: Kovačić: Real Madrid’s latest Croatian
After Real Madrid signed Kovacic from Inter, the midfielder will join his fellow Croat Luka Modric at the Spanish outfit. Los Blancos gave a six-year deal to the 21-year-old, who follows several other Croatian players at Real Madrid. He is the fifth player who made it to the Bernabeu coming from Croatia.
Robert Prosinecki was the first Croatian, who wore Real Madrid’s white jersey. He arrived at the Bernabeu in 1991, when he was 22. He made himself a name in the Crvena Zvezda side that won the Champions League, and in the Yugoslavian national team before the Yugoslav war broke out. He arrived as a star, but he failed to live up to the expectations as his three-year spell at the club was hurt by several injuries. He left for Oviedo in 1994, and spent a year in Barcelona as well later on.
Davor Suker arrived from Sevilla in 1996. He also played for Real Madrid for three years, but his spell was full of success. Suker was part of a thrilling attacking department also consisting Predrag Mijatovic and Raul Gonzalez. They won La Liga as well as the Champions League against Juventus in 1998, as many of those who follow live sports results might remember. He starred for Croatia at the 1998 FIFA World Cup as well, but left for Arsenal in the following year.
Davor Suker is perhaps the Croatian who became most legendary at the Royal Club (Photo: imago/Colorsport)
Another hit at the 1998 FIFA World Cup was Robert Jarni, who helped Croatia to the bronze medal as a left wing-back. He arrived at the Bernabeu after the tournament, however he moved on next year. He came to Madrid at the wrong time, as he had to compete for a spot in the starting line-up with a certain Mr. Roberto Carlos…
Before Real Madrid signed Kovacic, Luka Modric was the last Croatian player, who joined the Meringues. He is a very important player in the Madrid midfield alongside German international Toni Kroos. However, he needed time to settle in at his current club after his move from Tottenham Hotspur in 2012. In his first season he was considered to be a flop. However he established himself as a fan favourite in recent seasons, winning the Champions League in 2014. Now he is a key contributor to Real Madrid’s free-flowing football.
After Real Madrid signed Kovacic, he became the fifth Croatian international in the History of Los Blancos. The fact that his role model, Modric will be already in the squad might boost his integration to the team. Regarding that he is a very young player, only 21 years of age, maybe he won’t be considered as a flop even after a poor start in Madrid…
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Man United v Club Brugge Betting Preview
Man United is the overwhelming favorite of the fixture, especially at home.
The Red Devils have to emerge as victorious from the Man United v Club Brugge qualifying tie to get back to the Champions League after one year of absence.
After a very disappointing year with David Moyes that saw Manchester United finishing as low as 7th, Louis van Gaal took over the Red Devils. The Dutch genius led them back to the Champions League in his first year as United manager. However, Wayne Rooney and co. finishing fourth meant that the team had to join the competition at the play-off stage of the Champions League Qualification, starting with the Man United v Club Brugge fixture.
Teams like Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen and Lazio will also involved in the midweek qualifiers. However, many eyes of sports scores fans will be at Old Trafford, since the Red Devils start their Champions League campaign at home. The hosts are 1.29 (2/7) favourites according to Bet365, while a draw in the Man United v Club Brugge qualifier is priced at 6.00 (5/1), gambling news report. The Belgians are 8.00 (7/1) underdogs at Bet365.
EPLindex.com: Manchester United v Club Brugge KV|Champions League Play-Off
The Red Devils failed to qualify to the Champions League for the first time in 19 years with David Moyes. This means that Louis van Gaal will make his Champions League debut in the Man United v Club Brugge qualifier with his current team. The Dutch manager and his side have to eliminate the Belgian outfit to reach the group stage of the competition.
According to Van Gaal, the Man United v Club Brugge qualifiers could determine United’s whole season. He also highlighted the importance of a clean sheet ahead of the first leg. He said, “It’ll be a big two games in fact – they could help set us up for the season. What we have to gain is very important, but you approach both matches as any other games. We want to win on Tuesday and not concede.”
Brugge advanced to the 3rd qualifying round by overcoming Panathinaikos (Photo: Getty Images)
United starting the season with two 1-0 wins might boost their confidence. Keen followers of live sports results argue that the Red Devils weren’t this organized at the back in two years. A clean sheet from the hosts in the Man United v Club Brugge qualifier is available at 1.80 (4/5) in Bet365’s selection.
Club Brugge reached the playoff by eliminating Panathinaikos by a 4-2 aggregate score in the previous round. They also reached the Europa League quarter-finals last season, putting together a 15-match-long run without a defeat. They only conceded six goals during that series. It seems unlikely though they will be able to keep a clean sheet this time. Though injuries hurt them in the attacking department more seriously, they will also miss right-back Thomas Meunier due to a knee injury. The hosts will have only one absentee, Phil Jones, who is out for two weeks with thrombosis.
According to many pundits, the Red Devils were far from convincing in their first two league matches in the 2015-16 season. However it is hard to expect anything other than a home win in the Man United v Club Brugge Champions League qualifier. Wayne Rooney is favourite to open scoring with odds of 3.75 (11/4) at Bet365. In United’s last match, Adnan Januzaj registered the winner against Aston Villa on Friday. He is available to score against fellow Belgians at 2.88 (15/8).
UEFA.com: Manchester United v Club Brugge background
Man United v Club Brugge will be the teams’ first meeting in European international club competition. The Belgians have some sour memories of English sides in UEFA competitions. They were defeated by Liverpool in the 1976 UEFA Cup and in the 1978 European Cup finals as well.
The hosts have won their last three home matches against Belgian sides. They met Anderlecht on all three occasions and registered a tally of 18-1. The Red Devils made their debut in European club competition against a Belgian side. It was in the 1956/57 edition of the European Cup, and the opponents were Anderlecht once again. They went home with a 10-0 defeat. This is United’s biggest victory in European football. Another big margin United success would be beneficial for punters, as the hosts are available with a -2 handicap at 3.00 (2/1) on Bet365‘s handicap betting market.
Manchaster United has a good history against Belgian sides (Photo: Daily Mail)
Belgian teams were able to score at Old Trafford only one goal so far. That was provided by former Czech international striker Jan Koller. He found a net in a 5-1 defeat fifteen years ago. That was the latest United home match against a Belgian side. Both teams to score in the Man United v Club Brugge qualifier goes for 2.20 (6/5) at Bet365.
Experts of gambling facts might now that Club Brugge have never won in England so far. They registered two draws and nine defeats in their previous 11 visits. The last time that the Belgian outfit reached the group stage of the Champions League happened ten years ago. This could come through a huge upset only this time, priced at 7.50 (13/2) by Bet365.
However, this is quite unlikely, considering United’s strength and the fact that they have never lost a qualifying tie in the competition. They lost only one game so far from their 16 qualifying matches – that came in 2002/03, when Zalaegerszeg defeated them 1-0 in Budapest.
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Manchester United and City to Battle for Sergio Ramos
Manchester… but which one?
As the Premier League clubs are about to strengthen their squads, the biggest names in European football are involved in the discussions about possible transfer moves. It looks like Manchester United will finally acquire Southampton’s Morgan Schneiderlin, but it is also possible that they will get competition if they really want to bring Sergio Ramos to Manchester, as City is reportedly interested too. The Blues are in talks about signing Juve’s Paul Pogba as well, but his enormous transfer fee could prevent the Frenchman’s move to Etihad Stadium.
Soccerlens.com: Schneiderlin could join Manchester United on Wednesday
Online gambling news reported that Manchester United could present French midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin as their new player as early as Wednesday. Schneiderlin’s possible departure from Southampton was broadly discussed in the media since January, so the deal that is taking shape shouldn’t upset any of those who follow sports scores news.
Morgan Schneiderlin (Photo: Soccerrise)
Schneiderlin is considered as one of the finest holding midfielders in the Premier League and he is expected to take over Michael Carrick’s place in front of the United backline. This will be the Frenchman’s first opportunity to participate in the Champions League, as the Red Devils qualified for the competition again after a year of absence.
The French media reports that Man United will pay for Schneiderlin a fee around EUR 30 million (GBP 20 million) and according to English reports, the deal could be finalized this week. Schneiderlin was also linked with a move to the Emirates however Arsenal seems to be outbid by United.
ESPNFC.com: Manchester City to challenge United for Sergio Ramos’ signature?
The two giant clubs from Manchester have to battle against each other for Real Madrid’s Spanish World Champion and Champions League winnig defender, Sergio Ramos, gambling news report. Manchester United is looking for his signature for a while, and a possible deal also involving David de Gea was also emerged from the press.
However, according to the English media, Manchester City now entered the race for Ramos as the Blues’ board is watching the situation closely. If the contest will become more serious, this could be one of the most interesting transfer sagas of the summer.
Meanwhile former United star goalkeeper, Peter Schmeichel suggests De Gea to stay at Old Trafford as he is on his way to become a legend for the Manchester club. The Spanish goalie expressed before that he wanted to move to Real Madrid, however the Danish icon sees a bright future ahead of De Gea at Old Trafford.
The Telegraph: Manchester City open talks with Paul Pogba
In the meantime Manchester City is just about to bring the young French star, Paul Pogba to Etihad Stadium from Juventus. The Turin-based club asks EUR 100 million (GBP 70 million) for one of its top asset and Pogba’s salary demand is reportedly EUR 12 million (GBP 8.5 million) for a year after tax, which means something around a GBP 160,000 salary per week.
Is Pogba and Manchester City a sure thing? (PhotoL Getty Images via Goal)
All this won’t include the EUR 10 million fee of his agent, Mino Raiola, who is reportedly in talks with Txiki Begiristain, Manchester City’s director of football, according to latest gambling news. Pogba is also heavily linked with Barcelona and Real Madrid, and some experts speculate that City will miss out on Pogba eventually because of the high fee.
Though Barcelona is banned from transfers for this summer, they will be able to bring in new players in January. The Frenchman’s previous club, Manchester United was also keen to bring Pogba back, but the midfielder expressed that he is not interested in a move back to Old Trafford where he hardly got any chances to prove himself in the 2011-2012 season he spent there.
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Celtic to Play against Scot-beating Icelanders
The UEFA Champions League and Europa League draws were held on Monday in Nyon
Teams participating in the first round of the UEFA Europa League will have to start their campaign as early as July 2 with the reverse fixture scheduled to a week later. Those sides beginning their campaign in the second round of the UEFA Champions League will play their first game in the middle of July. West Ham United, the first placed team in the English fair play ranking will return to European football after an eight-year long absence, while Celtic, the Scottish champions, who not so long ago started the European competition in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, will enter in the second qualifying round this term.
BBC.com: Celtic face Icelandic side Stjarnan in Champions League qualifying
Celtic, the champions of the Scottish Premier League will start its 2015-2016 European campaign in the second qualifying round of the Champions League in the middle of July, online gambling news reported. As keen followers of sports scores might remember, the Hoops failed to make it into the group stages last year after being eliminated by Maribor.
FC Lusitans is to host West Ham United at Camp d’Esports d’Aixoval
Now the Bhoys will entertain Icelandic champions Stjarnan, while West Ham United, the other British side involved in the early stages of the competition, will face FC Lusitans from Andorra in the first qualifying round of the Europa League. West Ham, the side that finished twelfth in the English Premier League gained qualification through their Fair Play record.
The Hammers will start the campaign with their new boss Slaven Bilic as early as July 2. After a clash of fixtures between the two Andorran sides occurred, the initial schedule was reversed, so West Ham will play the first game home at Upton Park before travelling to Andorra a week later.
TheStar.com: West Ham kick off season against Andorran minnows
The draw of the Europa League qualifying was held on Monday in Nyon, Switzerland. West Ham United were paired with FC Lusitans from Andorra in the first round, and the Hammers will kick off their campaign at the beginning of July, five weeks before the start of the Premier League.
Those with an adept knowledge of gambling facts might recall that West Ham participated in the competition last time in the 2006-07 season. Now they will play in Andorra at Camp d’Esports d’Aixoval, a 1,000 capacity stadium. Andorra’s other team in Europe, Sant Julia will entertain Randers from Denmark in the first round.
England was ranked first by the UEFA fair play system and that provided them an extra place in the competition that went to West Ham, the team that came first in the English first-tier’s fair play ranking. 102 teams participated in the draw and the former European Cup winner Red Star from Belgrade will also enter in the first round travelling to Central Asia to visit Kairat Almaty in Kazakhstan.
UEFA.com: Qualifying round draws: best of the reaction
After the draw for the UEFA Champions League qualifiers was held in Nyon, Switzerland, the teams’ representatives spoke about their upcoming opponents. Icelandic champions Stjarnan will play against Celtic after they eliminated Motherwell in the Europa League qualifiers last year, as keen followers of live sports results might remember.
Celtic is to face Icelandic Stjarnan.
“We have mixed feelings,” said Stjarnan defender Daniel Laxdal. “It is great to meet Celtic but I think they are the most difficult team we could have met. We saw them against KR last year and know it will be hard work in defence. Last season we showed anything is possible if we are at our best so hopefully we can do something similar. Celtic will start their season against us and that might help a little but we are up against a great team.”
Celtic FC assistant manager John Kennedy commented the draw via his social media account. He expressed that all pressure is on Celtic, and this situation might suit the Icelandic underdogs. He added, “We have to make sure we go in fully prepared and we win the game. That’s the most important thing.”
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Barca v Juve: A Preview of the Champions League Final (Part II)
The best attacking line will meet one of the best defences to wrap up this year’s Champions League in a properly fitting battle. The two sides prefer to play in rather similar styles, however, Juventus head coach Massimiliano Allegri tends to completely alter his game plan for matches featuring opponents considered as stronger sides than his team. Therefore it might turn out as a classic showdown between a possession based, attacking outfit and a defending, counterattacking side.
Barca v Juve: A Preview of the Champions League Final (Part II) (June 6, 2015).
Latest scores – Champions League:
Barcelona Juventus 3-1
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Barca v Juve: A Preview of the Champions League Final (Part I)
Barcelona is expected to secure the fifth Champions League title in club history to equal the record of Bayern Munich and Liverpool. Many of their players been there, done that, but not just experience is on their side, as the team is on a roll that last was seen in a time when Pep Guardiola was managing the side. And they have the best forward line in the game consisting Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar, hitting 120 goals together in this season.
Barca v Juve: A Preview of the Champions League Final (Part I) (June 6, 2015).
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Messi to Become the Best Player Ever in Champions League Finals
Lionel Messi could become the first man to score in three different Champions League finals. After losing the World Cup final last year against Geramany, this is the only thing he can do to keep on challenging the greatest footballers ever. He has to break record after record to be recognized as the best ever, until his silverware collection lacks the World Cup gold medal. Now he can break some other records in a stadium, where he wasn’t able to play in 2006, as he was left on the bench by national team coach Jose Pekerman and Argentina crashed out against the hosts on penalties.
Skysports.com:Lionel Messi cannot win in the battle to prove he’s the greatest of all time
This Champions League Final will be the opportunity for several players to crown their career with a victory, like Gigi Buffon, who have yet to win the most precious title in club football. However, for the biggest star in the world,there is no such an option, he just have to win it. Again.
Lionel Messi scored an unbelievable goal in the Copa del Rey final last weekend, gambling laws reported. Most of the players around the world are able to score a goal like that only when playing video games, however, the Argentine genius have to do it again against Juventus, or to do something even more spectacular, because he is the best in the world.
Messi’s real problem is that he battles against legends now, and this race is tough to win on the field against Diego Maradona and Pele. It is virtually impossible to achieve their status without a World Cup victory, so Messi can bag as many goals as no player before, he will be still in the need of a gold medal from the Mundial to become the greatest ever.
ESPNFC.com:Lionel Messi has a score to settle with the city of Berlin
It was in the Berlin Olympic Stadium at the 2006 World Cup when Jose Pekerman decided not to deploy Lionel Messi during the quarterfinal Against Germany. The 19-year-old talent was watching from the bench, as Miroslav Klose equalized towards the end of regulation, to take the game into overtime, and to penalties eventually, that favoured the hosts.
Though he has become the best in the world since, one of the greatest ever, breaking so many goal scoring records, he still has an unfinished business with Berlin. Pekerman included the wonderkid into his squad, only to have a taste of World Cup football back in 2006, but those who follow sports scores might remember that he was so good that he was able to heavily influence games coming in as a substitute.
Argentina was one of the best teams around, and their quarterfinal against the hosts was regarded as an early final. However, after their goalkeeper, Roberto Abbondanzieri was injured in the second half, Pekerman had to use an unplanned substitution that eventually led to leaving Messi on the bench. He was heartbroken not to join the action, but now he will be on the pitch, probably from the first minute until the very last.
UEFA.com:Barcelona’s Lionel Messi speaks to UEFA.com
Lionel Messi is looking for becoming the first player to score in three Champions League finals on Saturday, having registered a goal in the 2009 and 2011 finals previously, both of them coming against Manchester United. Before the game, he shared his thoughts with followers of live sports results.
He stated that his family has been the biggest influence in his life caring about his football and his development, with the club of FC Barcelona been added to the mix after he moved over to Europe at an early age. He revealed that he enjoys a very good relationship with Neymar and Luis Suarez, which making their collaboration even more effective on the pitch.
Messi expressed that Barcelona had to go through a lot to reach the final again. Regarding the title decider, he said, “We know that we will face a very tricky opponent – they are very strong, Juventus are a big team. It is a final and anything can happen, but we will prepare and approach it as we have approached finals before.”
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Henry: Sterling to Destroy His Life and Career
Older and wiser give their advice to Sterling
As the end of the footballing season in Europe is edging closer, more and more rumours are emerging from the press about clubs looking for players, players looking for clubs, possible deals and refused contract offers. Some footballers use the media in a way that upsets basically indifferent people, some of them are just disappointed with their situations and quietly counting their days until finally getting off from their current employers. Raheem Sterling’s future is the hottest topic around, but it is also interesting where the likes of Alex Song, Sami Khedira, Pedro and Radamel Falcao will end up before the start of the next season.
The Telegraph: Thierry Henry: Raheem Sterling risks destroying his life and career
Former Arsenal and Barcelona star Thierry Henry advised Raheem Sterling to stop his agent giving him bad advice that will lead to ruining his life and footballing career eventually. The football pundit is totally unhappy with the way Sterling’s camp handling the situation.
Sterling refused to sign the contract renewal he was offered by Liverpool previously, which was a 100,000 GBP per week bid, gambling news reported. A TV interview was set up for him, where he claimed it wasn’t about the money that he opted not to sign the paper.
Henry disagrees totally with that attitude. He said, “You can’t go out there and talk about your contract in the press. You have to respect your fans, respect the club that you play for. If you want to leave Liverpool or not, when you make the decision about leaving or staying, then do it. Don’t discuss yourself in the paper.”
Henry also added that when he was a young player, he had a similar problem with many of those surrounding him giving advices, influencing his footballing display in a bad way. He expressed, that, “you need to be able to say, ‘Enough, you’re destroying my life, you’re destroying my career.”
The Guardian: Football transfer rumours: Alex Song to Manchester City?
Alex Song, the Barcelona defensive midfielder loaned to West Ham is wanted by Chelsea and Manchester City. As he played for Arsenal for three seasons before his 21st birthday, he counts as a homegrown player in England, not to mention that he is a very good footballer indeed.
Barcelona stated before that they want to keep their unsettled forward, Pedro, however online mobile news reported that they will let him go in exchange for 7 million GBP. He only has one year left from his contract, and Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham all could use him, and Liverpool was interested in signing him too.
Atletico Madrid could get back their former superstar striker Radamel Falcao. The Colombian player returns from loan to Monaco soon, after he did virtually nothing at Old Trafford this year. The Principality’s club allegedly plans to offer him plus cash worth of 25 million GBP in exchange for Mario Mandzikuc.
Worldsoccertalk.com: Juventus nearing agreement for Real Madrid midfielder Sami Khedira, says report
Juventus is about to recruit unhappy midfielder Sami Khedira from Real Madrid, latest gambling news report. The world champion German hardly got any playing time this season, and he has been looking for a place to go in a while. It was understood in November that the club chose not to renew his contract as the midfielder did not accept an offer earlier.
Khedira is allegedly lost his role in the dressing room recently, though he was a firm starter under Jose Mourinho. However, the German had several injuries, while Real Madrid strengthened their midfield unit significantly by acquiring the likes of Toni Kroos and James Rodriguez.
Khedira expressed in March, that he would leave Madrid at the end of the season, and he allegedly decided to join Juventus. The Italians have to look for an industrious midfielder with Andrea Pirlo leaving this summer and the future of Paul Pogba hanging in the balance.
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Messi Thinks He Was Lucky Against Bayern
Luck is one important ingredient…
Barcelona defeated Bayern Munich 3-0 in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals on Wednesday evening with two late goals from Lionel Messi and one from Neymar. This was the first time Pep Guardiola returned to the Camp Nou as the opposition’s head coach since he left Barcelona at the end of the 2011-2012 season. The Catalan manager had plans for his team to deal with Messi, arguably the best player in the world. However his team, though playing confidently against Barcelona, lasted for 75 minutes only.
Goal.com: Messi: Barcelona were lucky
Barca’s magical number ten claimed after the Champions League semifinal the Blaugrana won 3-0 that they needed some luck to succeed against Bayern Munich. Messi played his 100th European game, gambling news reported, and helped his team with two goals in the last period of the match before setting up the third for Neymar well into the injury time.
It was kind of a rude welcome towards former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola, who supervised the most successful era of the Spanish club. However, Messi told the press after the final whistle was blown that the outcome of the game wasn’t that obvious for them before taking the lead, though the scoreline would suggest a confident victory.
“We were lucky to score the first goal,” Messi revealed, then added, “Then the others came after that in quick succession and we have come away with a great result for the second-leg game, which is just what we wanted. Germany will be a tough venue. We have got a great result, but we must now go there and we can’t drop our guard.”
Messi also spoke about the wild celebration that followed his first goal, which was something that is not a common feature from the Argentina captain. “It was just my happiness about what the goal meant. We hadn’t been able to score and it was an important goal in the tie.”
ESPNFC.com: Pep Guardiola – Lionel Messi not only Barcelona player behind Bayern defeat
Bayern’s Spanish manager Pep Guardiola stated that not just Lionel Messi, but rather Barca’s “solid” performance is responsible for the 3-0 defeat that his team suffered in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal. The Argentine scored twice in the last fifteen minutes and then provided an assist for Neymar, according to sports scores news, but Guardiola said, it was not about just one man.
“I will not say what I think of Messi,” Guardiola told the media after the game. “They are not just Leo, Barca are a very good team. They were very solid, in defence and attack. They have great players, Neymar, Luis Suarez. We tried to control the game so that Messi would not participate so much. We were 15 minutes away from a very good result.”
Guardiola appeared for a brief press conference only after the match that saw his team hitting the opposition’s target just once, though he said before the match that scoring an away goal was vital in this fixture. “I am very proud of this team, and these players,” he went on.“I have no reproach for them. Been a very difficult year, I really appreciate what they have done this year.”
Guardiola also talked about the tactical switch to a four-man defence he applied after fifteen minutes. “We knew who we would be playing against, a team arriving in very good form. The best way to defend is to attack, it has worked well for us in the past. We lacked a little bit of incision up front, but I must just congratulate Barca for the win and prepare for Munich.”
Express & Star: Lionel Messi is the world’s best, insists Luis Suarez as Argentine’s performance against Bayern Munich leaves Javier Mascherano lost for words
Javier Mascherano was stunned by the show his fellow Argentine, Lionel Messi performed in the last quarter an hour against Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal. Uruguay ace Luis Suarez simply said that Messi is the best player in the world.
Those who follow live sports results might never forget Messi’s phenomenal second goal, but his first one as well as the assist he gave to Neymar were also very important in securing a comfortable position for Barcelona. With this performance, Messi caused a considerable damage for the side managed by his former mentor, Pep Guardiola.
“He’s a player that is impossible to describe, you have to watch him,” Mascherano praised Messi after the game. He went on to analyze the encounter, saying, “We knew, always in any stadium, they (Bayern) come to press high but sometimes when you press high, you take a risk. We know we have a lot of people in front with quality to make a difference.”
The defender also said that although they are in a very good situation at the moment, they will not think about the reverse leg as a formality at all, online sportsbooks consider them as strong favourites to advance. His Uruguayan teammate, Luis Suarez posted a photo on his Instagram with Messi, writing, “Vamossss! What good win and hard work of the whole team! I leave a picture with the best in the world!”
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Champions League Betting Preview – 1/16 Finals
Last week fans all across Europe were able to witness some truly inspiring performances by the best sides on the continent. We saw the likes of Shakhtar and Chelsea eliminated from the competition after some fruitful clashes, while now we turn our focus to the other remaining games in the elite football tournament.
Champions League Betting Preview – 1/16 Finals (March 17-18, 2015).
Atletico Madrid Leverkusen 1-0(3-2)
Monaco Arsenal 0-2
Barcelona Manchester City 1-0
Dortmund Juventus 0-3
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After a thrilling first week back in Europe’s greatest sporting event, fans are going to enjoy some more exciting encounters. Juventus will defend their colors against Dortmund and judging by the current form that the former side is in they are sure to pose a significant threat to the Germans.
Champions League 1/16 Finals (February 24-25, 2015).
Juventus Dortmund 2-1
Manchester City Barcelona 1-2
Arsenal Monaco 1-3
Bayer Leverkusen Atletico Madrid 1-0
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Champions League – Zenit vs FC Porto 3-1 – All Goals & Highlights
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Champions League 2nd Leg Betting Odds: Manchester United vs. Bayern Munich
Last weeks highlights:
Manchester United vs. Bayern Munich Soccer Betting Line:
Manchester United -½ -135 -135 2½ O -135 U +115 1½ O -140 U +120 Draw +260
FC Bayern Munich +½ +115 +365 2½ O -135 U +115 1 O Ev U -120 Draw +260
Half Time Line:
Manchester United -½ +130 +130 1 O -135 U +115 Draw +125
FC Bayern Munich +½ -150 +350 1 O -135 U +115 Draw +125
To Score First: Manchester United -210 FC Bayern Munich +160
To Qualify: Bayern Munich -115 Manchester United -125
Match Time: 02:45 PM Eastern Time Wednesday April 7, 2010
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PSP storms Japan
Lines start to move and cash registers start to ring as Sony officially enters the handheld gaming market.
By Jeff Gerstmann | @jeffgerstmann on December 13, 2004 at 6:55AM PST
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TOKYO--It all started just before dawn in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. At 6am, the popular game store known as Yodobashi Camera opened early, counted down the final minute, and fired streamers into the air. Ken Kutaragi and other Sony executives donned Yodobashi uniforms and happily sold the store's first PSP to a young man who was quickly mobbed by reporters. The reporters interviewed and filmed him as he opened the box and showed off the unit for the cameras.
Like many other major retailers in Japan, Yodobashi did not take PSP preorders. As a result, more than 1,200 hopeful game fans lined up throughout the long, cold night, some taking up their position as early as 3pm the previous day. By the time the store opened, the quiet crowd snaked around two blocks. Interestingly enough, the line at this particular store seemed to continue growing even after the store started selling the PSP, the six launch games, and other assorted accessories. With overall supplies for Japan said to be in the neighborhood of 200,000 PSPs, it seems almost certain that this initial stock will disappear quickly.
The PSP is available in two configurations. One is a system-only package, while a "value pack" includes many of the available accessories, such as a pair of headphones with remote, a 32MB Memory Stick duo, and a slim carrying case. Sony is also selling AC adapters (though, obviously, both packages come with one already) and additional batteries. Third parties are already selling thin pieces of plastic film that are intended to protect the screen from scratches.
Stay tuned to GameSpot for more news and preview information on the PSP as we put the final retail unit and its launch lineup through the paces.
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Colby area students recognized for scholarships at Fort Hays State program
NOTE: To download photos of your students receiving their award certificates, go to https://scholars.fhsu.edu/fnp_2018april/ and click on the Colby SRP 2018 link. Switch view to list form to see names and cutline material.
HAYS, Kan. – Students from northwestern Kansas, northeastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska were recognized at a recent Student Recognition Program in Colby for the scholarships they have been awarded from Fort Hays State University for the 2018-19 academic year.
The annual Colby SRP primarily serves students from Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas and Wallace counties in Kansas; Cheyenne and Kit Carson counties in Colorado; and Chase, Dundy, Hayes and Hitchcock counties in Nebraska. Students from outside the primary areas are also welcome.
Students are arranged alphabetically by high school. Cutlines are provided for the photos.
Cheylin High School
Manuel Castillo, a 2018 Cheylin High School graduate, received a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in art. Castillo, son of Jesus and Nora Castillo, Bird City, plans to major in graphic design. He is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Amy Schmierbach, professor of art and design.
Erik Perez, a 2018 Cheylin High School graduate, received a $500 FHSU Hispanic College Institute Richard Sandoval Memorial Scholarship and a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in art. Perez, son of Arturo Medina and Alondra Sanchez, Bird City, plans to major in art. He is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Amy Schmierbach, professor of art and design.
Colby High School
Cadyn Dixon, a 2018 Colby High School graduate, received a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in art. Dixon, son of Dale and Heather Dixon, Colby, plans to major in graphic design. He is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Amy Schmierbach, professor of art and design.
Natalie Oren, a 2018 Colby High School graduate, received a $1,000 Traditions Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in health and human performance. Oren, daughter of David and Shari Oren, Colby, plans to major in health and human performance. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Jeff Burnett, professor of health and human performance.
Jaden Reeh, a 2018 Colby High School graduate, received a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in justice studies. Reeh, son of Brad and Amy Reeh, Colby, plans to major in criminal justice. He is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Tamara Lynn, assistant professor of criminal justice.
Kora Schindler, a 2018 Colby High School graduate, received a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in psychology and won the drawing for a $600 FHSU University Bookstore Scholarship. Schindler, daughter of Tiffany Mader, Colby, and Raymond Schindler, Colby, plans to major in psychology. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Trey Hill, interim chair of the Department of Psychology.
Rayanna Schmidt, a 2018 Colby High School graduate, received a $2,000 University Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in chemistry. Schmidt, daughter of Stan and Terina Schmidt, Colby, plans to major in chemistry. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Edwin Olmstead, assistant professor of chemistry.
Rachel Van Eaton, a 2018 Colby High School graduate, received a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in health and human performance. Van Eaton, daughter of Jennifer Thompson, Colby, and Chris Van Eaton, Colby, plans to major in health and human performance. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Jeff Burnett, professor of health and human performance.
Morgan Voss, a 2018 Colby High School graduate, received a $1,000 Traditions Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in social work. Voss, daughter of Todd and Denise Voss, Colby, plans to major in social work. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Sky Westerlund, assistant professor of social work.
Decatur Community High School
Emily Howland, a 2018 Decatur Community High School graduate, received a $2,000 University Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in physics. Howland, daughter of Caleb and Sarah Howland, Oberlin, plans to major in physics. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. C.D. Clark, associate professor of physics.
Golden Plains High School
Kaylin Schaben, a 2018 Golden Plains High School graduate, received a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in business. Schaben, daughter of Nate and Jaclyn Schaben, Selden, plans to major in accounting. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Leann Brown, chair of the Department of Management.
Goodland High School
Dawson Ensign, a 2018 Goodland High School graduate, received a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in agriculture. Ensign, son of Bradley and Micki Ensign, Goodland, plans to major in agronomy. He is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Andrew Tucker, assistant professor of agriculture.
Leyton High School
Jessica Houk, a 2016 Leyton High School graduate and a Colby Community College transfer student, received a $4,500 Phi Theta Kappa All-Kansas Academic Team Scholarship and a $1,500 Transfer Student Award. Houk, daughter of Jason Houk, Sidney, and Bridgett Houk, Chappell, Neb., plans to major in marketing. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Leann Brown, chair of the Department of Management.
Elizabeth Gladin, a 2018 Oakley High School graduate, received a $2,000 University Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in biology. Gladin, daughter of Zach and Pat Gladin, Oakley, plans to major in biology. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Eric Gillock, professor of biological sciences.
Mattie Holzmeister, a 2018 Oakley High School graduate, received a $1,000 Traditions Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in agriculture. Holzmeister, daughter of Ray and Angie Holzmeister, Oakley, plans to major in agriculture. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Andrew Tucker, assistant professor of agriculture.
Quinter High School
Peyton Havlas, a 2018 Quinter High School graduate, received a $1,500 Hays City Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in teacher education. Havlas, daughter of Matt and Daryl Havlas, Quinter, plans to major in elementary education. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Janet Stramel, associate professor of teacher education.
Humberto Luna, a 2018 Quinter High School graduate, received a $1,000 FHSU Hispanic College Institute Scholarship and a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in art. Luna, son of Jose and Maria Luna, Quinter, plans to major in art. He is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Amy Schmierbach, professor of art and design.
Brittney Walt, a 2018 Quinter High School graduate, received a $1,000 Traditions Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in agriculture. Walt, daughter of Terry and Laura Walt, Collyer, plans to major in beef cattle management. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Andrew Tucker, assistant professor of agriculture.
Rawlins County High School
Will Crouse, a 2018 Rawlins County High School graduate, received a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in agriculture. Crouse, son of Sam and Jan Crouse, Atwood, plans to major in agriculture. He is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Andrew Tucker, assistant professor of agriculture.
Destanie Dupps, a 2018 Rawlins County High School graduate, received a $1,000 Traditions Scholar Award and a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in nursing. Dupps, daughter of Bryan and Melanie Dupps, Ludell, plans to major in nursing. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Natasha Werth, assistant professor of nursing.
Chiani Pearce, a 2018 Rawlings County High School graduate, received a $1,500 Hays City Scholar Award. Pearce plans to major in medical technology. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Eric Gillock, professor of biological sciences.
St. Francis Community High School
Zoe Sundstrom, a 2018 St. Francis Community High School graduate, received a $1,000 Traditions Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in business. Sundstrom, daughter of Garrett and Angie Sundstrom, St. Francis, plans to major in business. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Leann Brown, chair of the Department of Management.
Madison Tice, a 2018 St. Francis Community High School graduate, received a $1,500 Hays City Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in chemistry. Tice, daughter of Derrick and Heidi Tice, St. Francis, plans to major in chemistry. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Edwin Olmstead, assistant professor of chemistry.
Wheatland High School
Melissa Bixenman, a 2018 Wheatland High School graduate, received a $1,500 Hays City Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in business. Bixenman, daughter of Daryl and Judy Bixenman, Grainfield, plans to major in accounting. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Leann Brown, chair of the Department of Management.
Shayna Buck, a 2018 Wheatland High School graduate, received a $1,000 Traditions Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in psychology. Buck, daughter of Dan and Carol Buck, Grinnell, plans to major in psychology. She is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. Trey Hill, interim chair of the Department of Psychology.
Julien Illo, a 2018 Wheatland High School graduate, received a $2,000 University Scholar Award and a $900 Academic Opportunity Award in physics and won the drawing for a $400 FHSU Student Recognition Program Scholarship. Illo, son of Daryl and Heather Zerr, Grainfield, plans to major in physics. He is pictured with Dr. Joey Linn, right, vice president for student affairs, and Dr. C.D. Clark, associate professor of physics.
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Walter Dean Myers
Book List:84 titles
Title Title Genre Genre Date (oldest) Date (newest)
Juba!
/ Historical
In New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers's last novel, he delivers a gripping story based on the life of a real dancer known as Master Juba, who lived in the nineteenth century. This engaging historical novel is based on the true sto...
/ General Fiction
Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a...
Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award-winning Monster. It is 2035. Teens, armed only wit...
Fallen Angels - 0.5
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way to an uncertain future. Their whole lives are ahead of them, yet at the same time, death's whisper is everywhere. One white, one black, these young men have nothing in common and everything in co...
The Cruisers - 4
Walter Dean Myers's Cruisers series keeps going strong! The Cruisers are in trouble -- again. The freedom of expression they've enjoyed by publishing their own school newspaper, THE CRUISER, has spread all the way to England, where kids from a sch...
The Get Over
/ Suspense
Monster - 0.5
From Walter Dean Myers, the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, comes an all-new short story This original 20-page short story serves as a prequel to Monster, which has been read and loved by millions of readers. Word on the street is th...
Darius & Twig
New York Times bestselling author and Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers once again connects with teenagers everywhere in Darius & Twig, a novel about friendship and needing to live your own dream. Darius and Twig are an unlikely pair: Darius i...
Tags is a look at life and death in New York City, complete with a shocking end. Four New York City teens are shot down in the prime of life. They move through limbo, re-creating their distinctive tags in a Harlem walk-up so that they can "live" f...
Bestselling award-winning author Walter Dean Myers is back with a new book in his acclaimed Cruisers series. The Cruiser, an alternative newspaper published by Zander and his crew of middle school misfits, is alive and well. And now there's plenty...
We Are America
Lyrical free verse by a best-selling author and Ambassador for Young People's Literature and art by a Coretta Scott King Honor recipient, the award-winning father-son creators of Harlem explore the diversity in people, wealth, dreams and desires that...
Just Write: Here's How!
After writing more than one hundred books, it still amazes me that I have been lucky enough to spend most of my life doing what I truly love: writing. What makes a writer? The desire to tell a story, a love of language, an eye for detail, practice...
All the Right Stuff
Who's on top of the social food chain? How do you get ahead? Who makes the rules? Who needs to follow them? Paul DuPree is working at a soup kitchen in Harlem the summer his father dies, just trying to get by. But Elijah, the soup man, won't stop ...
Guys Read: Pirate
Abdullah Syed Hari is fourteen years old. He loves his family and his friends. And he is a Somali pirate. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. ...
In the second book of the CRUISERS series, Walter Dean Myers explores the world of competitive chess as seen through the eyes of a group of middle school misfits. Sidney Aronofsky is one of the best chess players under age 16 in both the city and ...
The Cruisers
Eighth grade is hard enough, but when you're a Cruiser, you're really put to the test. The launch of a new middle-grade series from bestselling award-winner Walter Dean Myers. Zander and his friends, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi start their own new...
Into the summer heat of New York's Spanish Harlem strides Carmen, a chica who is as hot as the sizzling city streets. When she first meets Jos�, she falls for him hard. He's not like the gansta types she knows -- tipo duros who are tough, who think...
The Easy Life
Life's pretty good on Monkey Island. All day long, the monkeys sit around talking their monkey talk and enjoying their big-time monkey dreams. That is, except Oswego Pete, who is one slick monkey. He's bent on finding the Easy Life--a place whe...
When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to thinking about it, you knew nobody could get in, either. It seems as if the only progress that's going on at Progress ...
Looking Like Me
When you look in a mirror, who do you see? A boy? A girl? A son? A daughter? A runner? A dancer? Whoever and whatever you seejust put out your fist and give yourself an "I am" BAM! This jumping, jazzy, joyful picture book by the award-winning team...
The Civil War is raging and in a desperate effort to find more recruits, the Union begins a draft - a draft with a difference. The wealthy can pay $300 to be released from their obligation, but the poor must go and fight and die. In New York City, th...
Dope Sick
The itch starts when things get too heavy for Lil J. Skin popping or stealing pain pills from his mom help him relax. But Lil J's focus is wandering because money is short, and his man Rico knows a way to make some quick cash. It's supposed to be an ...
Amiri and Odette: A Love Story
In this modern retelling of the Swan Lake ballet, acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers explores the sweet/sharp spark of love between two teens.A boy searches for his newfound love among the city streets, to find that, unwarily, she's been caught in th...
Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris can do it all on the basketball court. He's seen ballplayers come and go, and he knows he could be one of the lucky ones. Maybe he'll make it to the top. Or maybe he'll stumble along the way. Slam's grades aren't...
Somewhere In The Darkness
Jimmy hasn't seen his father in nine years. But one day he comes back -- on the run from the law. Together, the two of them travel across the country -- where Jimmy's dad will find the man who can exonerate him of the crime for which he was convicted...
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Fallen Angels - 2
Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR. In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing...
Drew Lawson knows basketball is taking him places. It has to, because his grades certainly aren't. But lately his plan has run squarely into a pick. Coach's new offense has made another player a star, and Drew won't let anyone disrespect his game. Ju...
What They Found
145th Street - 2
WALTER DEAN MYERS returns to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discove...
Harlem Summer
Walter Dean Myers delivers a humorous, action-packed historical novel set during the Harlem Renaissance. It's 1925 and Mark Purvis is a 16-year-old with a summer to kill. He'd rather jam with his jazz band (they need the practice), but is urged by hi...
Street Love
/ Romance
Junice What am I doing? He'll take one quick look And wish he was anywhere else but here I'm already ashamed of what I think He will think of me, of the life I lead Damian Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings ...
There's a crazy syncopation /and it's tearing through the nation / and it's bringing sweet elation / to every single tune./ It's Jazz Fifteen poems, infused with the rhythm and wordplay of jazz music, are paired with bold, stylized illustrations o...
Blues Journey
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
The thing was that me and Rise were blood brothers, but sometimes I really didn't know him. . . .And so Jesse fills his sketchbook with drawings and portraits of his blood brother, Rise, and his comic strip, Spodi Roti and Wise, as he makes sense of ...
The groundbreaking and widely praisednovel about a school shooting, from the acclaimed author of Monster . Multiple narratives, a personal journal, and newspaper and police reports add perspective and pull readers into the story. "Questions of gui...
The Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama 1948
My Name Is America
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includ...
Now in paperback. Anthony Spoon Witherspoon's first true love Gabi is prey for the Beast back in Harlem while he's at prep school. Spoon's battle to save Gabi challenges his feelings about the community--and the girl....
The Dream Bearer
David Curry doesn't know what to make of his father, Reuben, whose violent out bursts and chilling nightmares torment his family. His older brother, Tyrone, says Reuben is crazy. But lately, even Tyrone isn't acting like himself.Then David meets the ...
Handbook for Boys
Jimmy and Kevin could really use a guide to life. Their activities almost land them in juvenile detention until Duke employs them in his Harlem barbershop. Duke has rules for everything. But is he offering good advice or just more aggravation? In th...
Three Swords for Granada
By the groundbreaking author of the award-winning Monster–a visionary who influenced and inspired a generation–this powerful and poignant short story collection celebrates African-American life in all its glory. On one block of 145th Street, thin...
The Blues of Flats Brown
The Beast Is in the Labyrinth
in Places I Never Meant to Be
"What effect does the climate of censorship] have on a writer?....It's "chilling." It's easy to become discouraged, to second-guess everything you write. There seemed to be no one to stand up to the censors....so I began to speak out about my exper...
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins
June 7, 1944 I could see Omaha Beach through the smoke and haze as our assault boat rocked in the choppy waters. The noise was unbelievable -- shells hissing overhead, great booms along the shore as the navy pounded the Nazi positions. . . . A boat ...
Monster - 1
STEVE HARMON’S BLACK. HE'S IN JAIL, MAYBE FOREVER. HE'S ON TRIAL FOR MURDER. AND HE'S SIXTEEN YEARS OLD. Fade In: INTERIOR: Early morning in CELL BLOCK D, MANHATTAN DETENTION CENTER. STEVE (Voice-Over) Sometimes I feel like I have walked ...
The Journal of Joshua Loper
May 4,1871 I am getting more and more excited and Mama is getting more and more down in the mouth about me going on the drive. Last year when I saw the guys leaving for Kansas, I dreamed I was going with them, my hat pulled down low over my eyes and...
At Her Majesty's Request
Angel to Angel
Shadow of the Red Moon
/ Fantasy
Hating to leave his family behind but determined to preserve the Okalian way of life, Jon ventures outside of the Crystal City walls and seeks the Ancient Land past the dangerous Wilderness. Reprint. AB. SLJ. K. "...
Depicts the rich character of Harlem through poetry and illustrations in which the author and his son paint a picture that connects readers to the spirit of Harlem in music, art, literature, and everyday life....
Turning Points: When Everything Changes
One of the juvenile non-fiction books written by award-winning writer Walter Dean Myers. This story will help young readers understand that disastrous events can change things significantly. About Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers is a published au...
Case of the Missing Ruby and Other Stories
/ Mystery
Sniffy Blue: Ace Crime Detective
SMIFFY BLUE IS ON THE CASE! Meet Sniffy Blue, ace crime detective of Doober City. With his sidekick, Jeremy Joe, and his faithful dog, Dog, Smiffy Blue sniffs out clues that lead him all around town in search of crooks. ...
How Mr. Monkey Saw the Whole World
After watching cold-hearted, cruel Mr. Buzzard cheat Mr. Hare, Mr. Antelope, and Mr. Crab, Mr. Monkey sets out to teach the greedy bird a much-needed lesson, in a brightly illustrated cautionary tale by the award-winning author of Scorpions. ...
Glorious Angels
Mop, Moondance, and the Nagasaki Knights
Mop and Moondance
T. J., Moondance, and Mop return with the continuing adventures of their baseball team, The Elks, and this time they are trying to win a trip to Japan by coming in first in a special international tournament....
The Story of the Three Kingdoms
Long ago, when the earth had not settled in its turning and the stars had not found their places in the night sky, there were three kingdoms.The first was the kingdom of the forest, ruled by the mighty Elephant. The second was the kingdom of the sea,...
The Dragon Takes a Wife
A reissue of the Newbery Honor author and Coretta Scott King Award winner's first picture book, complete with stunning new illustrations, presents the story of a dragon seeking companionship and a kindhearted, mildly incompetent, jive-talking fairy n...
Darnell Rock Reporting
DARNELL ROCK IS not the kind of kid who volunteers to write for the newspaper—it sounds too much like homework. But this is Darnell’s last chance to pull himself together and make a positive contribution to his school. At first, Darnell would rat...
Glory Field
"Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human." You need land, her father had said. That way you're working for yourself. You get up in the morning and you're getting up for you, and when you go home at night and...
Young Martin's Promise
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner
Wanted: One low-lifed, sniveling scoundrelArtemis Bonner wants to set the record straight. He's just arrived in Tombstone, Arizona, to avenge the murder of his uncle Ugly Ned Bonner. And if he happens to stumble across the gold mine his uncle descri...
The Mouse Rap
You can call me Mouse, 'cause that's my tag I'm into it all, everything's my bag my ace is Styx, he'll always do Add Bev and Sheri, and you got my crew ...and a crew it is! For fourteen-year-old Mouse, this summer is anything but boring. His father,...
Jamal Hicks is having a hard time in school, what with Dwayne always pushing him to fight and the principal, Mr. Davidson, always on his case. He has a tough time at home, too, worrying about how hard Mama works and trying to get money for an appeal ...
Me, Mop and the Moondance Kid
T.J., his younger brother, Moondance, and Mop -- Miss Olivia Parrish -- grew up together in the same orphanage. Now T.J. and Moondance have been adopted, and Mop has to find a family before the orphanage closes and "leftover" kids are sent away. Mop ...
Mr. Monkey and the Gotcha Bird
Crystal Brown has that one-in-a-million look that millions of teenagers wish for every day. Her exotic looks and special appeal make her a high-fashion photographer's dream come true. Before long her face graces chic magazine covers and expensive ...
Sweet Illusions
Ambush in the Amazon
Duel in the Desert
Adventure in Granada
The Hidden Shrine
Motown and Didi
Motown lives in a burned-out building one floor above the rats, searching out jobs every day, working his muscles every night, keeping strong, surviving. Didi lives in her cool dream bubble, untouched by the Harlem heat that beats down on her brother...
The Fallen Angels
FIGHTING TO SURVIVE Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry has just graduated from high school. There's no way he can afford college, and the streets are just too hard. So he signs up for the army and gets shipped off to Vietnam. In a battlefield jungle whe...
The Outside Shot
New Ebook Bonus Content: -Book Group Discussion Questions -Q&A with screenwriter John Ballard -Excerpt from Hoops -Excerpt from 145th Street -Excerpt from On a Clear Day When Lonnie Jackson leaves Harlem to take a basketball scholarship at a ...
Tales of a Dead King
The Nicholas Factor
Won't Know 'Til I Get There
The Legend of Tarik
All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a citywide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal, knows Lonnie can make it to the NBA if he doesn't give in to the pressure. Cal knows because he too ...
The Black Pearl and the Ghost
Young Landlords
They were out to save the world -- and were lucky to save their skins! If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldn't beat The Stratford Arms. There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Jo...
Mojo and the Russians
It Ain't All for Nothin'
Life in Harlem isn't easy, but Tippy and his grandmother are doing okay. Then Grandma Carrie gets sick, and Tippy goes to live with Lonnie, his father. Lonnie's got his own thing going on, and he doesn't have much room in his life for a son he barely...
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
Fly, Jimmy, fly!
Victory for Jamie
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Borders' In-Store-Only Coupons Sign Of A Much Bigger Problem
Starting in February, Borders quietly changed how it handled its coupons, changing them from being available for both in-store and online orders to solely in-store. In and of itself, that's not so surprising, especially given that the $3 billion chain that month all-but-halted meaningful E-Commerce investments. But the move to push all sales into the stores runs counter to customer desires, which is rarely a good longterm strategy.
That may be precisely the point. With the economy still scraping bottom, many retailers and E-tailers are having to craft strategies that are designed to be very temporary and very emergent. There's a major E-Commerce vendor, for example, that is out there trying to convince retailers to halt efforts to bring in new sales, proposing that they instead force all efforts on the installed base. This forces us to consider three distinct issues:
Will these temporary, emergent strategies work?
How easily will they be to reverse after the emergency is over? (This presupposes that they indeed can be reversed.)
Will these approaches actually put merchants in a much weaker position after the crises abates, even if the policies can be successfully reversed?
Let's start with the key issue: Will these temporary approaches even work? The two examples cited offer very different—almost polar opposite—strategies. One suggests an in-store-only approach, but opening it to all existing and new customers, while the other suggests a limit to the installed base, but is channel-agnostic. Would submit that even a short-term strategy will only work if the target audience can be persuaded to do it.
The focus on installed base at least speaks to the audience on its own terms. Even that approach is not suggesting blocking or alienating prospects, but merely that no money or effort would be deployed to try and woo them. Limited dollars in an emergency requires unpleasant triage decisions.
Borders' coupon approach seems much less likely to succeed, namely because it's forcing one channel on a group of prospects who are typically leaning toward a different channel.
And even if it somehow worked temporarily—worked being defined as boosting sales—issues two and three are even less kind. Is crippling an online operation going to leave the chain stronger or weaker when the crises abates? And can it be restarted, at a time when rivals have been steadily investing? Will customers resent being pushed into a channel to convenience the chain?Still, if a chain truly believes that it might not survive the storm, sheer survival might trump all. But will it really?
The irony here is that Borders' customers are a community of information-lovers. They are likely to be more open to mobile and social media forums, let alone Web communications. Is it not indeed ironic that two of the chains whose customers are most inclined to embrace the Web—Borders and Starbucks—are the ones most inclined to ignore it?
Borders officially says the program is indeed temporary and the chain is trying anything it can to try and survive now, so that it will have options later.
"As our CEO, Ron Marshall, said on our most recent investor conference call, we are focused on improving gross margins through being smarter in controlling promotional offers and in-store discounts," E-mailed Anne Roman, Borders' VP for corporate communications. "We are researching and experimenting with a variety of offer types and combinations of offers to be more effective and hit the right sales/margin balance."
One has to ask the question whether this in-store focus is based on customer and prospect feedback or whether it's internal logic, calculating that if stores today deliver more of the revenue and profit, that's where investments must go. It might sound rational and logical in a memo from the new CEO, but I think Borders may be about to discover that many of its customers are probably not going to have received that memo.
They're going to expect the chain to anticipate their needs and work with them in their preferred channels. It wouldn't be the first chain to not properly hear what its customers are saying, but it seems an odd way of reversing sales declines.
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Visual Abstract by Louis Hothothot (2017) from Master of Film on Vimeo.
Red Kid Black Kid
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My long-term research is titled Identity in the biopolitical age, and concentrates on how political power disciplines our identities.
My project Red Kid Black Kid is a documentary film in development.
About my position as an illegal child, born in the period of the Chinese one-child policy, and my personal conflict with my father.
Through a personal narrative, this film also expresses a set of conflicts between socialism and capitalism, collectivism and individualism, authority and the individual, Maoism and humanism. The project will invite audiences to engage with a simple story that in fact deals with how political ideologies and authorities discipline our identities.
as a son, I desire to move away from the influence of my father;
as a black son, I desire to challenge authority’s oppression;
as an immigrant, I desire to blur cultural boundaries;
as a citizen, I desire to escape ideological control;
as an artist, I desire to think freely.
Louis Hothothot
Louis Hothothot was born in China in 1986. He studied graphic design, video art, and animation at the China Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing from 2004 to 2008. He enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at the Dutch Art Institute in 2012 and graduated in 2014. He works as a multimedia artist combining video, visual arts, graphic design and performance. His current research focuses on film narrative and cinematic language.
In 2013 Louis Hothothot started a long-term collaboration with French performance artist and choreographer Artémise Ploegaerts. He regularly shows his works in museums, galleries, and theatres. In Amsterdam, he has exhibited in the EYE Film Museum, Dansmakers, the Oostblok Theaterand in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
Louis Hothothot regularly publishes his art and film reviews in media outlets, such as the Financial Times and in the magazines Art & Design, Art World and New Graphic
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Acer launches laptop that weighs lower than a 1-litre water bottle
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New Delhi | Published: March 14, 2018 2:11:53 PM
Acer Swift 5 comes with connectivity options including Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth, and support for Windows Hello with the fingerprint sensing technology.
Acer Swift 5 packs Intel’s eighth-generation processor, a full-HD (1080p) display with thin bezels, and Windows 10 among others.
Acer has launched a new laptop adding to its exiting lineup in India. The biggest highlight of the laptop is its ultra slim design, making it weigh as low as just 970 grams, which is even lower than a 1-litre water bottle. Called the Acer Swift 5, the laptop packs Intel’s eighth-generation processor, a full-HD (1080p) display with thin bezels, and Windows 10 among others. The Acer Swift 5 is priced at Rs 79,999 in India and will be available across Acer Exclusive stores and other retailers.
The Acer Swift 5 sports a metal (magnesium-lithium alloy) body with slimmed down bezels, which has been packed to cut down the weight of the laptop to just 970 grams. The chassis of the laptop weighs less than 1 kilogrammes with a 14.9mm thickness, says the company. The laptop is powered by eighth-generation Intel Core processors paired with 8GB of DDR4 RAM. On the storage part, the laptop packs 512GB solid-state drive storage.
There is a 14-inch full-HD (1080p) display given on the Acer Swift 5 laptop with a bezel-reduced design. The display is powered by Acer Color Intelligence technology that ‘optimises screen colour, brightness and saturation’. The laptop comes with Dolby Audio Premium for a better sound experience tuned by Acer TrueHarmony. Acer says that the speakers emit a ‘powerful and clear’ audio while the Skype and Cortana integration let you use the best of Windows 10. There is an 8-hour lasting battery packed under the hood.
The Acer Swift 5 comes with connectivity options including Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth, and support for Windows Hello with the fingerprint sensing technology. The laptop comes with two USB Type-C 3.1 ports for ‘quick data transfers, connection to an external display, and to charge the notebook’. “We are ecstatic with the newest addition –Swift 5 to our range of Swift series laptops in India. This is another record breaker by being one of the lightest laptops in the world at an unbelievable 970gms,” said Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO and Consumer Business Head, Acer India
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Al-Qaeda Consolidates Its Front Groups In Syria
By Moon of Alabama
Global Research, January 26, 2017
Theme: Terrorism
In-depth Report: SYRIA
A few days ago Al-Qaeda in Syria and the Salafist Takfiri group Ahrar al Sham produced a show claiming they were fighting each other. I fell for it and wrote:
The Turkish, Russian and Iranian governments had agreed on talks in Astana in Kazakhstan between delegations from “moderate” militant groups in Syria and the Syrian government. Ahrar al Sham, which ideologically borders between al-Qaeda and the “moderates”, was also invited. It declined to take part in solidarity with the not invited designated terrorist group Jaish Fateh al-Sham (the former Nusra Front aka al-Qaeda in Syria).Russia had suggested the talks with the intent of separating the “moderate” Takfiris under Turkish control from the designated “terrorist” Takfiris. The talks had no immediate results but still achieved their purpose. Shortly after the talks began al-Qaeda attacked Ahrar al Sham. After some on and off fighting al-Qaeda started yesterday to attack all “moderate” Takfiri groups in Idleb and Aleppo governate.
I was wrong. Ahrar did not fight with al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda did not attack it. As far as one can tell they coordinated their actions for the purpose of eliminating smaller “rebel” groups under the disguise of Takfiri infighting. Those smaller groups are led by local war lords and supported by Turkey and the CIA. They all had earlier cooperated with al-Qaeda which provided the “storm troopers” for their attacks on Syrian government forces. They recently took part in the Astana talks while Ahrar declined in solidarity with al-Qaeda.
The ruse came to light when the “reports” of Ahrar and al-Qaeda infighting were not followed up with any reports of casualties, neither from the sides of those groups nor from any other account. How can there have been fighting when no one was killed or wounded?
Ehsani explains the situation:
Thread on Battles in #Idlib: All battles that took place in Naaman & Jabal Al Zawiye are imaginary battles that were essentially prearranged
2-The main purpose of these prearranged battles is to swap checkpoints of #Ahrar with #Nusra and vice versa
3-Even the v public battle in village of Dana is also imaginary as shooting that took place involved firing in the air around Dana crossing
4-Even news of arrest of the two Nusra security officers is untrue as both spent the time at residence of Amr al jeldi, Emir of #Ahrar
5-This #Ahrar Emir’s residence in M’araa acted as joint operations center for both #Ahrar & #Nusra to coordinate this entire scenario
6-Importantly, it appears that there has not been a single casualty yet during these entire so-called battles
That report has since been confirmed by several other accounts and sources on the ground.
Al-Qaeda in Syria (aka Jaish Fateh al-Sham aka Nusra Front) did attack several local groups, raided their headquarters and confiscated their CIA supplied weapon and ammunition caches. One major alliance of local groups, the Army of Mujaheddin, was eliminated. Other local groups took refuge by joining Ahrar al-Sham:
SOHR was informed that the factions of Soqor al-Sham, alMOjahdin Army, Eqtasim Kama Amart grouping, al-Islam Army in Idlib and the Shamia front in western Aleppo, joined Ahrar al-Sham Islamic faction against Fateh al_Sham front
It seem that the plan for now is to keep Ahrar al-Sham as a “moderate” front group for al-Qaeda while eliminating all other “moderate” forces on the ground. Parts of Ahrar al-Sham take part in the Turkish “Euphrates Shield” operation against the Islamic State while al-Qaeda in Syria is no longer openly supported by the Turkish state.
The ruse of the claimed fight between Ahrar and al-Qaeda is used to uphold a distinction between these groups even when hardly any exists. Ahrar al-Sham was, like al-Qaeda in Syria, founded by a senior member of al-Qaeda central under command of the al-Qaeda’s central leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
There once were components within Ahrar that argued for a less radical course. But other significant parts had argued for officially joining al-Qaeda. The middle ground found now is to cooperated with al-Qaeda as a means for absorbing all other “rebel” groups on the ground while keeping up good relations with Turkey.
Some (minor) ideological differences between Ahrar and al-Qaeda in Syria still exist. It is expected that a fight for primacy will indeed start between (parts of) these two groups in the not so distant future. But that will only happen after all weaker groups on the ground are eliminated and after Ahrar is exposed and can no longer act as a Turkish supported intermediary for weapons and other supplies.
The Associated Press still reports fighting between Ahrar and Al-Qaeda based on quotes of the Gulf propagandist Charles Lister. Like us it fell for the ruse. Unlike us it will probably stick to the fake version. The ruse will thus have worked in deceiving the “western” public and decision makers.
The original source of this article is Moon of Alabama
Copyright © Moon of Alabama, Moon of Alabama, 2017
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Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Share Message with the World
By Forest Peoples Programme
Global Research, April 26, 2017
Region: Latin America & Caribbean
We, the traditional authorities and elected leaders of the Uitoto, Muinane, Andoque and Nonuya peoples of the Middle Rio Caquetá region of the Colombian Amazon are in Bogotá between the 25th and 28th of April to represent our peoples and our Traditional Association of Indigenous Authorities – the Regional Indigenous Council of Middle Amazonas (CRIMA) in meetings with different State institutions and international agencies. We self-identify ourselves as the “People of the Centre” and heirs of the Green Territory of Life in the Amazon rainforest.
We are here to demand guarantees for our rights and to share concerns regarding forest, climate change and biodiversity projects that affect our territory, including the National Parks Department’s Heart of the Amazon Project supported by the World Bank and Global Environment Facility, and the Vision Amazonia Programme funded by the UK, Germany and Norway. We wish to express concerns that these programmes are undermining our principles of consent and participation and are applying processes that are not appropriate for our way of thinking and decision making.
Asserting our rights: Under our Law of Origin, and in accordance with our uses and customs, we have maintained a respectful relationship with our territory and the natural world. Before colonisation, our ancestors lived well. More than a century ago the cauchería came to exploit, enslave and displace our peoples, and almost exterminated us. We are the survivors of that genocide. We have since been reconstructing our society by building our malocas (ceremonial houses) and practising our ritual dances using the Word of Life and the wisdom of our elders. Since the 1970’s, our Cabildos (Councils) and Traditional Association of Indigenous Authorities have undertaken collective actions to legally securing our territory and to claim our rights.
Messages of the People of the Centre
To the Colombian government: We are not here to ask for projects. We want the national government to fully recognise our autonomy and our rights to govern our territory. We wish to see our applications for the extension of Reserves of Monochoa, Puerto Sábalo-Los Monos and Aduche properly processed and titled in favour of our communities to consolidate the Territory of Life belonging to the People of the Centre. In addition, we seek the formation and legal registration of an Indigenous Territorial Entity under our full jurisdiction in order to manage, administer and preserve our traditional territory and forests and maintain our way of life.
To international institutions: We inform the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility, donor governments and cooperation agencies of Germany, the United Kingdom and Norway, that they must reach agreements directly with us, as our ancestors did. They did not talk to outsiders by means of third parties. We don’t want to have the interference of intermediaries such as NGOs and environmental funds: we seek a direct relationship between programmes, international donors and our traditional authorities. We demand that we are recognised and respected as environmental authorities in our own territory, with our own indigenous system of territorial ordering. We demand that the agencies respect our rights to own, manage and control our territory. To this end, we seek formal steps to develop and implement a Safeguard Plan for our peoples.
To the world: These demands are not just our concerns. Many other peoples in the Amazon and the world have similar claims and proposals for protecting peoples’ rights and sustaining the forests. When we say that we manage our territory and have our own government we are not talking about nature as an object or natural resource, but rather as a space with natural beings with whom we relate guided by our Word of Life and mutual respect. We want to let the world know what “territory” means to us. This week we will share the teachings of the Muinane people about our care of territory. The Uitoto, Andoque and Nonuya peoples have been working in the same direction in documenting our ways of managing and preserving the rainforests. We want to invite all the Peoples of the Centre, America and other parts of the world to join us in this effort to defend life and territory.
Hernando Castro, Regional Indigenous Council of Middle Amazonas: [email protected]
Tom Griffiths, FPP: [email protected]
Camilla Capasso, FPP: [email protected]
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Forest Peoples Programme, Global Research, 2017
Articles by: Forest Peoples Programme
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Home Global Village Rao Anwar has the right to a transparent investigation: Bilawal
Rao Anwar has the right to a transparent investigation: Bilawal
Pakistan’s People Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari demanded a ban against police encounters all over the country. He said that while addressing a press conference related to the launch of PPP’s membership drive. Speaking in reference to the Naqeebullah murder case, he said that he condemns the brutal encounter and demands a ban against all encounters in the country.
On the other hand, he also demanded a fair and transparent trial for former SSP Malir Rao Anwar. He denied the allegations that the law and order situation in Sindh has become worse, he claimed that the situation has improved greatly in the past few years. Responsibility of Naqeebullah’s murder case also lies on PPP, it being the ruling party in Sindh for the past nine years. Bilawal understood this burden of blame and defended his government by stating that the law and order situation is improving.
The inquiry committee has complained that Anwar has not been cooperating with them. It will be interesting to see how this story develops as more facts about the case continue to get revealed.
Naqeebullah Mehsud was a shopkeeper and a model on Facebook. The Malir police murdered him in an encounter on January 12th. Mehsud’s murder resulted in a huge outrage on social media, with people posting condolences on Mehsud’s profile and demanding justice for his murder. SSP Rao Anwar claimed that Mehsud was a TTP militant but he failed to produce any evidence to back his claims. The murder received nationwide condemnation; the Supreme Court (SC) has also taken a suo moto notice of the murder.
Read more: Has Saleem Shahzad left MQM for PTI?
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq also raised his voice in demanding justice for the brutal murder of Naqeebullah. The JI chief visited Sohrab Goth to offer condolences to Naqeebullah’s family. While speaking to the media in Sohrab Goth, he said that Naqeebullah was a peaceful citizen and had no connections with any terrorist organizations. He lamented the deteriorating law enforcement conditions in Karachi, claiming that more than 400 people have been killed in around 118 police encounters.
Mehsud’s murder resulted in a huge outrage on social media, with people posting condolences on Mehsud’s profile and demanding justice for his murder. SSP Rao Anwar claimed that Mehsud was a TTP militant but he failed to produce any evidence to back his claims.
Sirajul Haq demanded the provincial chief minister to conduct an urgent inquiry of the case. “His only fault was that he belonged to a tribal area,” Siraj lamented. He also regretted that Pakistan is the only country where people are not granted the right to a fair trial, murdering someone without a trail is against basic human rights. Sirajul also asked the authorities that if SSP Rao Anwar is not responsible for the murder then the real perpetrators should be made public.
Read more: Rao Anwar suspended as public anger over Naqeeb’s death grows
Rao Anwar has pleaded his innocence and has stated that he is being framed. He failed to show up to the hearing probing into extrajudicial killing of Mehsud. The inquiry committee has complained that Anwar has not been cooperating with them. It will be interesting to see how this story develops as more facts about the case continue to get revealed.
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 isn't expected to come with Google's new Android M update but we're still excited.
Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 is heavily rumored to have Android 5.1.1 Lollipop on board. Android 5.1.1 is Samsung's newest version of Android and it comes with a number of bug fixes, security updates and enhancements.
Many Galaxy owners have had to wait awhile for Android 5.1.1 to arrive. The Galaxy Note 5 will run it right off the bat.
It's also rumored to have some new TouchWiz features including a brand new menu for the S Pen's Air Command function. Air Command is one of our favorite Galaxy Note 4 features and we're all for Samsung making improvements.
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How to Disable LG G4 Automatic App Updates
Cory Gunther
This guide will explain the few simple and quick steps required to disable or stop the LG G4 from automatically updating apps on its own. This is a setting on the Google Play Store, and something we receive questions about from all users when they buy a new Android smartphone.
When users buy the new LG G4 and get everything all set up, it will likely have tons of apps that need to be updated right out of the box. Our own unit had 30+ apps that needed to be updated. After that though, it will continue to get updates and often times users want to disable them from updating automatically.
Read: How to Use the LG G4 Camera
If you don’t want your device updating on its own, or rather not be bothered by tons of notifications to update apps on your LG G4 almost every day there are a few easy ways to solve the problem. The Google Play Store has a few extremely easy settings to change in order to control everything. This is very helpful to first-time smartphone owners, or beginners.
By default the new LG G4 and most Android smartphones and tablets are set to automatically update apps. That said, many don’t want this, or want to only update over Wi-Fi to save data and not go over their carrier data plan. Whether or not you should do this is up to you, and here’s how.
In order to stop apps from updating on their own you won’t be messing with settings on the LG G4, but instead it’s inside the Google Play Store where you get all your apps, games, music and more. Simply head to the Google Play Store by tapping the icon on your homescreen, or find it in your application tray.
Read: 30 LG G4 Tip & Tricks
In the Google Play Store users will need to tap the menu button next to the “Play Store” at the top. The thee lines is the menu button. This retrieves a slide-out settings menu from the left, and this is where you’ll head to settings for the Google Play Store. Tap the slide-out menu, then select “Settings” near the bottom from the list of options.
As shown above this takes users to the general settings for the Google Play Store. Right near the top is the setting we’ll be changing. “Auto-update apps” is the button we want to press. Users will then see a popup appear with three options. Likely it’s set to automatically update apps, which is nice, but this is where we stop apps from updating on their own.
Simply tap to select “Do not auto-update apps” and you’ll have to manually update apps moving forward. However, this means you’ll constantly get notifications that new apps need to be updated, and it won’t do it for you. I prefer to control what apps update and look at changelogs first, so this is the setting I use myself.
Alternatively there’s a setting to update apps at any time, even if you’re on mobile data and not a wireless internet connection. This isn’t advised, as apps are large in size and users can go over their monthly data plan extremely quick. A good middle ground is set it to only update when you’re on a WiFi connection, but again, this will let apps update automatically and users won’t have control.
It’s also worth noting that in this same settings menu you can also uncheck the feature that automatically puts downloaded apps on your homescreen. This is nice, but if you download too many apps you’ll quickly fill up all those homescreens with icons. Disable that so you can control what goes on the homescreen, and what doesn’t.
Should You Do This?
Users new to Android may want to let the smartphone do everything for them, and just keep it set to automatically update apps. I know my parents hate getting notifications for updates all the time, so they have it set to auto. Personally, I’d rather control what updates, and look at changelogs and permission requests, so I do it all manually.
If you use auto-update you won’t know what’s new, because you didn’t read it when updating the app. You’ll just notice changes to popular apps like Facebook, YouTube and more. A prime example is Textra, my favorite text message replacement app. It recently received a huge update that changed the look of many features. I chose not to update as I like things just the way they are right now.
In the end it’s all about personal preference. How much time do users want to spend messing with things and manually updating apps, or just let the phone do all the work for them. Select what’s best for you, and change it as you see fit.
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LG G4 Folio Flip Case
Just like last year, LG is offering an official Folio Circle Case that offers multiple levels of protection, additional neat features, and a Flip cover to protect that big 5.5-inch screen. The trademark circle window cutout in the flip cover shows a clock, the weather, incoming call or text message information, quick access to the camera and more all without ever opening the case.
Flipping open the case instantly wakes up your device, but you can do everything mentioned above without even opening it. This case makes your phone durable, offers additional features, and protects the screen all in one. Last but certainly not least, there's also a second version of the Folio Case that enables wireless charging, making it more than worth the more expensive price point.
LG hasn't announced pricing for the G4 Folio case and it's still listed as coming soon on LG.com, but last year the G3 Folio case was $49, and the wireless charging enabled case was $59.99. We'll update once it actually goes on sale.
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Searching for Rochester's best chicken wing
Maggie Ramsay
Aug 29, 2007 at 12:01 AM Aug 29, 2007 at 7:14 AM
Jeremiah’s Tavern took the title of Rochester’s best.
By the end of the day Saturday, even faithful chicken wing lovers had their fill.
A film crew of “wing experts” stopped in Rochester as part of a documentary, “The Greatest Chicken Wing Hunt” Saturday Aug. 26 to taste test the city’s best.
The stop is one of several the film crew is making across the state to find the best wings in the state. The two-week hunt, which started in Manhattan Aug. 18 ends in Buffalo next weekend in time for the Buffalo’s Chicken Wing Festival.
In Rochester, the crew hit five stops – L&M Lanes, Salvatore’s Old Fashioned Pizzeria, Jeremiah’s Tavern, Richmonds and Norton’s Pub – throughout the afternoon with a group of about 50 who tagged along for the fun and feast.
Overall, Rochester proved to be a strong competitor.
Richard Adams of Irondequoit said the best part of Rochester is its chicken wings.
“We do wings the best here,” he said.
His vote was for L&M Lanes, a small bowling alley on Merchants Road in Rochester.
“They cook up crispy wings and they got the hottest sauce in Rochester,” Adams said.
Irondequoit native Ronald Wieszczyk, who is taking part in the cross-state hunt and who considers him the most “most eloquent wing hunter” on the trip, said wings were slightly soggy at L&M Lanes because they sat too long, which gave Jeremiah’s the lead.
“The good news is we haven’t had a bad wing yet,” Wieszczyk said. “But right now I would say it’s Jeremiah’s. The core is nice and crispy... good sauce. The only bad thing I can say is the heat could have been turned up a notch.”
Wiesczyk's taste buds were right on.
The group voted Jeremiah’s as serving Rochester’s number one wing, followed by L&M Lanes, Richmonds, Nortons Pub and Salvatore’s Pizzeria.
Jeremiah’s wings will go on to compete for the state title, which will be announced at the Chicken Wing Festival in Buffalo.
Matt Reynolds, of Lyons, is producing the film. He quit his job as a journalist for Reuters, a news agency in Warsaw, Poland and moved home in May to film the documentary.
He said he had been thinking of changing careers and getting into film-making and saw the documentary as a good opportunity.
“I think it’s a story of the chicken wing and the subculture here, the quest in finding perfection in things and misfits on a mission. I am not sure which is going to emerge as the strongest story line,” Reynolds said.
He said the film will cost about $100,000 which is being paid for through grants, investments and donations.
On the tour, he took with him Rochester chicken wing-eating champ Ben “Mighty Thor” Beavers, a semi-pro eater from Manchester.
“So far the hunt has been incredible. There have been pluses and minuses, but it’s been an awesome opportunity to meet a wide variety of people. Everybody has just welcomed us whereever we have been and wished us well,” he said.
Four members of the film crew are from Slovakia.
Dawn Udave of Steuben County came along for the tour with a friend. She said she likes wings, but she mainly came to have a good time.
“I wanted to go out and have some fun and everyone is, especially after a few beers,” Udave said, laughing.
The film will be made in English and in Slovak for airing on Slovak television. Reynolds wants to sell it to film festivals and cable television. He also plans on showing the film next year at Buffalo’s Chicken Wing Festival.
For more information about the trip or film go to www.chickenwinghunt.com.
Maggie Ramsay can be reached at (585) 394-0770, Ext. 238, or at mramsay@mpnewspapers.com.
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Pierre Lyonet’s 1706–1789 Study of Insects: Displaying Virtue and Gaining Social Status through Natural History
Authors: Koen Scholten
This paper looks at the gentlemanly natural history practiced by Pierre Lyonet (1706–1789). Eighteenth-century natural history was inextricably linked to social status and Enlightenment ideals such as civility. By looking at the social network Lyonet built, we can reconstruct how past-time naturalists could enter the Republic of Letters, learned societies, and what this meant in the wider culture. For Lyonet, his study of insects had profound moral, religious and patriotic dimensions. This political and societal embeddedness enabled Lyonet to be both a benefactor to the state’s “public good”, meet the standards of a gentleman, while at the same time adhering to politesse in the Republic of Letters. All in all, this paper presents Lyonet as a gentlemanly naturalist working for state and status.
Keywords: Pierre Lyonet, natural history, Republic of Letters
DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/studium.10182
Pierre Lyonet’s name is scarcely known today. He was a statesman and naturalist in the midst of the eighteenth century. Lyonet held various government positions at the Staten Generaal (States General), such as translator, master of patents, and cryptographer. As a naturalist, Lyonet worked as a draftsman alongside the prominent naturalist Abraham Trembley (1710–1784) on their study of the sweet-water hydra in the 1740s.1 Afterwards, Lyonet wrote and published his extensive commentary on a French translation of Johan F. Lesser’s Insecto-theologia to later publish his own anatomical study of a caterpillar in the 1760s.2 All these natural historical pursuits, however, were done in Lyonet’s spare time, alongside his governmental for the Staten Generaal in The Hague.
Let me briefly introduce Lyonet’s and his biography.3 Pierre Lyonet was born in Maastricht in the Dutch Republic on July 21, 1706, as a son of the Huguenot preacher Benjamin Lyonet and Marie Le Boucher. Benjamin was a well-known preacher in Maastricht and had similar aspirations for his son: to study theology. Pierre Lyonet started studying theology at Leiden University in 1724, but eventually switched to law. In 1731, he defended his thesis on rejecting the use of torture in law (the use of a rock or pijnbank).4 After receiving his doctorate, Lyonet settled down in The Hague, and took the oath to become a lawyer for the Court of Justice of Holland.5 Five years later, in 1736, Lyonet was admitted as a lawyer to the Supreme Court (Hoge Raad).6 In short, Lyonet’s ascension through the governmental ranks was apparently going swiftly and smoothly: from 1736 onwards he obtained governmental functions for the States General (Staten Generaal) – the highest representational governmental body – as a translator, cryptographer, and later a master of patents.
Alongside his governmental career, Lyonet was a fervent draftsman and observer of insects from the 1730s onwards. The interplay between his governmental position and work on the one side, and his activities in natural history on the other, will be the main focus of this paper. Lyonet’s self-portrait emphasize both his skills as an observer and a artist (see fig. 1). Here, the wide-eyed and attentive Lyonet looks out at the viewer, armed with an engravers’ pen, as if ready to capture what he has carefully observed. Lyonet’s study of insects, however, was not a solitary and isolated practice, but was embedded in social networks, systems of credibility, and social status.
Fig. 1:
Self-portrait. Drawn by Pierre Lyonet, 1758. Rijksmuseum: RP-T-00-1759, http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.231018.
This paper focuses on these social dimensions of Lyonet’s natural history. The first part looks at how Lyonet entered the transnational circle of naturalists – or the province of natural history in the Republic of Letters if you will – and learned societies, by analyzing correspondence, letters of recommendation, and membership diplomas of a variety of learned societies. The second part concentrates on the practice of natural history by Lyonet, asking how observing, dissecting, and drawing insects fitted in an eighteenth-century ideal of gentlemanly knowledge production. All in all, this paper will show how both the networking strategy and cultural ideals of knowledge expressed in Lyonet’s practice of natural history were essentially ways to serve the state (or the ‘public good’), worship God by studying his creation, and acquire social status as a virtuous gentleman.
The Gentleman Scholar between Sciences and Politics
So where does Pierre Lyonet fit in the eighteenth-century world of arts and sciences? While at first Lyonet appears to be another gentlemanly scholar of the eighteenth century – one who possesses a microscope to observe insects, collected shells, naturalia, and other curiosities, and could therefore impress his friends – a closer look at his letters and ascension in the Republic of Letters quickly reveals a serious naturalist who was eager to be successful both as a statesman and a naturalist.
These two roles went hand in hand. In the early modern period, the networks and patronage structures of both politics and the sciences overlapped to a large degree. If one wanted to have a career in politics or the sciences, one needed to have strong connections with prominent men. These connections, and their visibility in letters and dedications, offer a way to understand early modern power relations, as well as a way to understand how certain individuals managed to become established in the Republic of Letters, while others perished.
Historians have analysed the development of scholarly networks and the standing of scholars in the Republic of Letters. As Bianca Chen has shown, Gisbert Cuper (1644–1716), a scholar and diplomat, could employ his social capital gained in the political realm for the benefit of his reputation in the Republic of Letters.7 Despite the fact that Cuper had a limited scholarly output, he was able to rise in the ranks of the Republic of Letters as well as in politics since he had a central position in the overlapping networks. Elsewhere, Chen has argued that Cuper’s agency as an agent for scholars and diplomats ‘were performed separately with different people and by separate letters, but within the same sphere of power relations in the Dutch Republic.’8 This same, or merged, sphere of power relations which can make or break a career in either politics or the Republic of Letters is typical of the late seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Disputes in the Republic of Letters could be solved referring to social status. In this vein, Pierre Lyonet was also involved with a dispute about the credibility of Pieter Gabry (1715–1770), a Dutch gentleman scholar. As Huib Zuidervaart has shown, Gabry deliberately tried to gain social status and acceptance through the pursuit of science, which eventually led him to fabricate results and plagiarize. Pierre Lyonet initiated Gabry’s downfall by discrediting some of his observations, and Gabry was eventually banished from the Republic of Letters, and dubbed a ‘plague to the learned world.’9 Lyonet could draw on his social stature. Incidents like these emphasize the importance of social status and civility, but also the fragility of one’s position.10 But how did Lyonet gain social status as a credible gentleman? For this, we have to look at Lyonet’s entrance into the Republic of Letters and learned societies.
Entering the Republic of Letters
Historians who have studied epistolary exchanges and the sense of community between scholars in the early modern period emphasize the importance of codes, rules, and honour. Entering the imagined community between learned men often dubbed the Republic of Letters required merit, and, as it turns out, a network of friends and colleagues who are already established in the epistolary network.11 In order to consolidate oneself in the learned world, one needed to follow the codes and make sure to slowly gain access to the most prominent members of the Republic of Letters.12 Or, as Saskia Stegeman has aptly put it: ‘With local connections already in place, it was possible – after careful preparation – gradually to enlarge existing circles. Through known connections already in contact with one or more influential persons, a young scholar could pay his respects to them and eventually become a familiar name to them.’13 To understand how Lyonet became an established naturalist, we have to trace how he forged relations with the illustrious René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur in Paris.
In the 1740s, Réaumur was well-known for erudition and voluminous Mémoires on the natural history of insects.14 He received credibility and recognition beyond the borders of France, signified in 1739 by the election as a member of the Royal Society in London, since ‘His Name hath been known for many years among the Learned’ and because of his multiple and excellent ‘Litterary Titles.’15 At this time the study of insects in western continental Europe (France, Dutch Republic, Switzerland) was organized around Réaumur, who acted as an authority, collaborator, editor and a center of correspondence. Moreover, Réaumur’s Mémoires inspired the study of insects throughout Europe by many young naturalists such as Charles Bonnet, Abraham Trembley, Charles de Geer, Gilles Bazin, and also Pierre Lyonet.16 All of them corresponded with Réaumur, sending observations and specimens to Paris. Yet, to understand how Lyonet could eventually correspond with Réaumur, we have to look at the naturalist who introduced Lyonet to Réaumur: Abraham Trembley.
Trembley came into contact with Réaumur through his cousin and close friend, Charles Bonnet (1720–1793), a Genevan philosopher and naturalist. Bonnet read and highly appreciated Réaumur’s Mémoires, as he writes in his autobiography, ‘I found in the Mémoires of Mr. de Réaumur all that could satisfy my ardent curiosity, feed my taste, enlighten my Spirit and guide it in its path.’17 As a response to Réaumur’s call to send in observations, Bonnet reported his close observation of aphids, concluding that they reproduced asexually, an observation which contradicted metaphysical beliefs of nature at the time.18 As a mark of his excellence, the nineteen year old Bonnet was appointed as an official correspondent of the Académie des Sciences in 1740. Such a title, linked to the well-known Réaumur and a prestigious society, made sure Bonnet enjoyed credibility as a naturalistic observer through Europe. Memberships of other learned societies, such as the Royal Society in London, soon followed.19
Abraham Trembley was one of Bonnet’s correspondents, since they knew each other from the intellectual circle in Geneva. After Trembley left Geneva, he resided at Sorgvliet, the estate of the noble Bentinck family in The Hague (now called Catshuis) between 1739 and 1747. Here he served as the personal tutor of the Bentinck children. The Bentinck family was an influential noble family in the Dutch Republic. Willem Bentinck (1704–1774), Lord of Rhoon and Pendrecht, proudly posing in a 1750s painting (see fig. 2), was Trembley’s patron and maintained strong bonds with Stadtholder Willem IV.20 In his many leisure hours, Trembley engaged in the study of nature, focusing on insects and polyps (sweet-water hydra). Through his family connections with Bonnet and their shared interest in natural history, Trembley came into contact with Réaumur. In 1740, during his study of nature in the ponds at Sorgvliet, Trembley found something ‘le plus remarquable’: an aquatic ‘petit être’ (later called polyp or hydra) that, after having been cut in two separate pieces, continued to grow as two separate beings. Trembley did not draw any conclusions, but did realize it was an important phenomenon, since it was in conflict with the prevailing view that an animal is complete and whole, and should not continue to live after division.21
Portrait of Willem Bentinck (1704–1774), Lord of Rhoon and Pendrecht. Painted by Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1755–1756. Rijksmuseum: SK-A-4155, http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.10131.
Trembley now had a reason to contact the illustrious Réaumur. Since the two were unacquainted, Trembley had to make sure to come across as a humble gentleman. In his lengthy second letter to Réaumur, Trembley apologized for his boldness in writing such long letters, since it violated the custom of modesty in the Republic of Letters:
I notice the extreme length of my letter. Pardon me, mister, for my indiscretion. I contradict myself. I wish to show you my gratitude, and I expose you to the tedious reading of the investigations of a schoolboy, having tasted in your works so many agreements, and which for me is always a source of gentle and tranquil pleasure, and in which I find so much knowledge that would be impossible to find elsewhere. I impose [on myself] silence for the future; I promise you. Sir, to break it only in case I find some animal or something that appears to be worthy of being communicated to you.22
Clearly, Trembley took on a subordinate role vis-à-vis Réaumur. Trembley not only regaled Réaumur with numerous compliments, but he also played himself down as a ‘schoolboy’. This letter illustrates the caution with which Trembley forged his correspondence network. Trembley’s success relied not so much on the successful discovery of the regeneration of the polyp, but rather on the social techniques Trembley employed to share and communicate his findings.23 Adhering to ideals of civility and utility in the Republic of Letters was key here. The caution was even more clear when Trembley introduced Lyonet to Réaumur over the course of two letters in 1740. In one of his first letters to Réaumur, he mentioned an anonymous ‘ami’ and fellow observer:
I have a friend [ami] here [in The Hague at Sorgvliet], who has also observed one [caterpillar], and has seen its birth, while he has kept it in perfect solitude since its birth.24
The anonymous ami shared an interest in nature, and they were working together at Bentinck’s Sorgvliet, where Trembley resided. Trembley quickly introduced and praised his ami to Réaumur a few months later at the end of a letter:
P.S. There is a Mr. Lionnet [sic] here strongly devoted to the study of insects, who saw a worm of nine thumbs long issuing from a grand caterpillar he was feeding […] He lived two days before passing away. He crawled and wiggled. I saw him dry; it looked like violin string. Mr. Lionnet [sic] draws perfectly. He represented all its entanglements.25
These letters show how Trembley meticulously introduces Lyonet to Réaumur as a draftsman: first as an anonymous ami, then in a post-scriptum. Lyonet had been interested in natural history for a few years, and found a way to express and communicate his knowledge and skills to a wider Republic of Letters through his connection with Trembley. To recount, Trembley was connected with Réaumur through his family connection with Bonnet. Through this local connection with Trembley, Lyonet could gain access to the wider circle of naturalists, a typical strategy for setting up a correspondence.26 By first working with Trembley, then having Trembley introduce him carefully, Lyonet entered the naturalistic epistolary circle around Réaumur. Thereafter, Lyonet maintained a direct correspondence consisting of thirtysome letters with Réaumur throughout the 1740s.27 Here we can see that gaining access to epistolary contact with influential naturalists relied on known connections who could then gradually introduce Lyonet as an observer with skill and merit.
Learned Societies
Towards the end of the seventeenth century learned academies and societies started to emerge, most notably the Royal Society in London and Académie des Sciences in Paris.28 These institutions were central to obtaining, maintaining and centralizing credibility in matters of the natural sciences and granting social status to its members. The membership of a ‘gentleman’ in English, or ‘savant’ in French, was crucial since it enabled the stable production of knowledge – the academy imposed a certain methodology and etiquette upon its members, but granted members access to, and credibility in, the Republic of Letters.29 This was of great interest for naturalists such as Lyonet, since membership helped to distinguish them from a mere liefhebber (amateur). Here, we look at Lyonet’s attempts to gain membership of the Royal Society in London and the then newly-founded Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Holland Society of Sciences). The former was already highly regarded in the learned world, and the latter emerged in the 1740s in the Dutch Republic, built on the belief that knowledge and the sciences could help mankind and the state prosper.30
Lyonet’s entrance into the Republic of Letters was highly dependent on already forged connections with influential men – not necessarily naturalists. First, in 1743, Trembley asked for membership of the Royal Society, with recommendations of Réaumur and his patron William Bentinck:
Mr. Trembley […] already known to the Royal Society by his Late curious Observations in Natural History communicated to them; being very desirous of the Honour of becoming a fellow of the Same we whose Names are under written do at his request propose him Accordingly: And as well on the credit of his general reputation, as of the very advantageous character given of his Candor, Learning, and Merit, by the Hon.ble William Bentinck Esqr. and Mons.r Reaumur, fellows of the Society in Holland and France. […]31
Here, Trembley was praised by both a noble gentleman, Bentinck, and a well-known naturalist, Réaumur. Trembley gained acceptance, and at the end of the same year he was awarded the yearly prize for outstanding achievements.32 At this point, Trembley was considered an important natural experimenter throughout Europe, marked by his prestigious membership and prize. This did not only give him a position of authority, but also the ability to propose other naturalists as members of the Royal Society. Between 1745 and 1750, Trembley vouched for eleven gentlemen who were in ‘every way well qualified and likely to be a usefull member of our body.’33 Clearly, membership did not only entail attaining intellectual status, but also a central and powerful position in the Republic of Letters, since it allowed Trembley to propose new members, among others Pierre Lyonet. Trembley praises Lyonet in his proposal letter as
A Gentleman well Skilled in Philosophical and Natural knowledge; a dillligent Observer and promoter of usefull Experiments. and enquiries, being desirous of the Honr. of becoming a Member of this Royal Society: we do both on our own knowledge and upon the recommendation of Monsr. de Reaumur of Paris hereby propose and recommend him as a Gentn. of true merit and every way qualified to be a usefull member of our body.34
Again, we see a reference to Réaumur and a reference to Lyonet’s virtuous behaviour: useful, well-skilled, and diligent. Lyonet was accepted as a fellow of the Royal Society in London in 1748.
In the same vein, the correspondence between Lyonet and Christianus Carolus Henricus van der Aa, the secretary of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen from 1752 until 1793, allows us to see how the society amassed new members in their first years of existence. The society held regular meetings in Haarlem with its local members and maintained correspondences with its ‘honorary’, or rather external, members.35 Lyonet was one of the first members of the society, along with other Dutch members of the Royal Society in London, such as Leiden university professors Pieter van Musschenbroek and Johannes Nicholaus Sebastianus Allamand. This suggests that the directors and members of the Hollandsche Maatschappij deemed any member of the Royal Society worthy to be a member of their society. On October 15, 1753, it was decided that the proposal to make Lyonet a member by Thomas Schwencke – the private doctor to the Bentinck family – was granted. Lyonet was accepted on the condition of having the ‘benignity to cooperate.’36
Lyonet signed most letters to Van der Aa with ‘Uw Dienstwillige Dienaar’ (Your Accomodating Servant), emphasizing his role as a servant to the goals of the Society, i.e. the progress of the sciences and society. At the same time, he was also truly concerned about the prestige of the society. After receiving his membership diploma in 1762, Lyonet responds to the enclosed rules of the society.
I also find in the article that the Members should aspire to increase the number of Members. One could object, with reverent improvement in mind, that it would be more appropriate to fix the amount of Members […] The prestige of a society diminishes because of a high number of Members and easy appointment of new Members […]37
To remain polite and not come across too boldly, Lyonet concludes his letter politely: ‘However, I leave this to the wiser judgment of the Gentlemen Directors, who I deem highly regarded with all my honour.’38 Although Lyonet did take the liberty to express his criticism, he made sure to add niceties to restore his position as a servant to the society.
Lyonet’s membership of the society involved the exchange of correspondence, advice, credibility and books.39 He acted as a gentlemanly scholar, giving advice, sending his books, and resolving issues about credibility, such as the controversy surrounding the physicist and astronomer Pieter Gabry in 1754. Since Lyonet had recommended Gabry to the Royal Society and the Hollandsche Maatschappij, he felt the responsibility to tell the secretary Van der Aa not to publish Gabry’s account of a parhelion. Lyonet was sure Gabry could not have observed this, and Lyonet’s testimony was decisive in Gabry’s unmasking as a fraud and the ‘plague to the learned world’.40
The correspondence between Lyonet and Van der Aa shows how his affiliation with the Hollandsche Maatschappij consisted of a carefully weighed balance between give and take. Lyonet offered advice, evaluation of other learned men and their works, and sent his works to the society. In turn, Van der Aa acquired books for Lyonet through his correspondence network, published his articles, and granted Lyonet social and intellectual prestige as a member.41 Overall, Lyonet was a formidable Dienstwillige Dienaar of the many societies he was a member of. By 1762, Lyonet was member of the learned societies in London, Haarlem, Rouen, Berlin, Halle and Saint-Peterburg.42 Now we turn to how Lyonet’s membership of the Republic of Letters and learned societies related to gentlemanly ideals of knowledge and virtue.
For State, God, and the Sciences
The study of insects was a quintessential gentlemanly past-time in the eighteenth century, exemplified by a preface to the Dutch translation of Gaspard Guillaird de Beaurieu’s Kort begrip van de historie der insecten:
I request you to become men of merit; but at the same time I want you to pass the time amusingly […] Continually direct an attentive eye on the attractive painting, which Nature displays, and you will become wise, you will become satisfied, you will prevent a thousand lamentations, a thousand displeasures. Get used to look at many small and despised objects […] with attentiveness and wonder, which have received the artfulness and delicate care of the wise Creator […] it adorns the Enlightened of the world, those patrons of mankind, to learn to attentively and in quiet peace behold God’s wonders.43
This passage emphasizes the virtues of an enlightened man: he should not linger and be dienstbaar (helpful). Studying insects offered a perfect way of combining leisure, contributing to the pursuit of knowledge and truth, and admiring the beauty and wonder of God’s creation.44 This is the type of gentlemanly natural history Lyonet was practicing. In this section, I want to flesh out the goals Lyonet had set for his study of insects. In other words, why was Lyonet, a busy government official, so concerned with the study of insects? The following demonstrates three overlapping goals and motivations: benefiting the public good, the devotion of God through observation, and the gaining of social status.
First, Lyonet appealed to serving the ‘public good’. As a master of patents and a cryptographer for the Staten Generaal, Lyonet already held a central place in government, thereby serving the public good. Public good in natural history, however, had a different character. In the case of Réaumur, the influential Parisian naturalist and academician, the place of natural history in relation to the public good (le bien publique) took on new meaning—it elevated the naturalist as someone who was devoted to the homeland and useful work. According to Mary Terrall, ‘This zeal to benefit the public, an idealized and selfless devotion to useful work, implied nobility as well as manliness.’45 Terall point sout that the contingency of nobility, utility, and the claim to the public good is noteworthy, since it furthermore stresses that the study of natural history as was considered an appropriate endeavour for a pious and useful gentleman. In both his commentary to the French translation of Lesser’s Insecto-Theologia as Theologie des Insects and in his own treatise on the anatomy of the caterpillar, Lyonet defends the utility of the study of insects by referring to the public good, which benefits from ‘true theology’. In the latter, a fierce defense of the study of insects can be read.
I do not doubt, moreover, that those who reduce everything to their direct utility, find that I have very badly employed my time […] How many times have I not been reproached for applying the little talent that I have been given, to a subject of this nature, instead of making use of them for objects more useful and refined, or to at least have worked on the human body, if I wanted to dissect […]46
Lyonet justifies the study of the anatomy of insects because it offers a look into the deepest workings of the Creator. Hence, ‘pure theology’, as Lyonet calls it, ultimately benefits the public good. And both this artificial appeal to the public good and the religious dimension gave Lyonet a ground to observe and draw the anatomy of insects.
The second goal in Lyonet’s work, then, was the devotion to God and his creation (the so-called second book of nature) through observation.47 Microscopical vision was quickly considered as a spiritual experience, since it allowed a view of the smallest and most intricate parts of God’s creation.48 A religious and spiritual dimension of microscopy and the study of the anatomy of insects can, for example, also clearly be seen in Jan Swammerdam’s work on the anatomy of insects.49 The observation of the book of nature was not limited to insects; naturalists – poets, theologians, and natural philosophers – looked at all facets of the natural world out of devotional and spiritual motivation.50 Such a devotional aspect can clearly be found in Lyonet’s monograph, Traité anatomique, in which he describes and draws all the complexity and intricacy of one caterpillar’s anatomy, layer by layer. This was not a work focusing on the philosophical or theological meaning of insects in general, but a detailed analysis of all the anatomical layers of one caterpillar found in the woods surrounding Sorgvliet. Commenting on the observation of the caterpillars, Lyonet writes:
[…] the more I examine it, the more I find complexion and intelligence. Everything contributes to a marked goal. It is a machine composed of various substances […] A machine, where everything is in motion, which is transported from one place to another; […] I cannot reflect on all this, without telling myself, this was not done by chance. It must absolutely have been composed by a Being possessing, in the most sublime degree, the most hidden secrets of Hydraulics, Chymia, and Mechanics; By a Being, in whom an unlimited intelligence is united to an absolute power over matter, and in whom the most compact spaces would not be an obstacle to the execution of the most extensive plans […]51
Moreover, Lyonet describes his studies of insects not as an objective way of knowing, but rather as a subjective experience of nature. Lyonet writes how he represented the insects the way ‘I thought I saw [it]; [the way] it seemed to me; it appeared to me’.52 In his description of a caterpillar, Lyonet stresses the ‘ideal lines’ and the perfection present at every level of detail in the anatomy of the caterpillar.53 Such representations of a caterpillar – and insects in general – are typical of natural theology in the eighteenth century.54 The divine ‘Author’ is always present in Lyonet’s account, and he continuously stresses the intimacy of his observations.55 Lyonet’s study of insects was quintessentially a form of devotional observation, in which religion and piety were major motivations.
Both Lyonet’s goal to benefit the public good and to show his devotion to God helped to solidify his status as a pious and virtuous gentleman. Since piety was considered a universal virtue in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic, acquiring it through the study of nature added to Lyonet’s social status.56 Although social status was not a means to an end, the status that came with usefully spending one’s free time was certainly an asset. Lyonet’s membership of the Republic of Letters and learned societies helped to grant him credibility as a virtuous gentleman. Therefore, it is not surprising that on the title page of Traité anatomique Lyonet made sure to mention all the learned societies he was a member of, as well as his governmental affiliations, both signifiers of his virtue and utility, as perceived by other illustrious men. The title page can be seen as the place where all of Lyonet’s statuses come together to form his persona – the way he was and wanted to be perceived. Similarly, in most correspondence with learned academies Lyonet mentions both his governmental affiliations as well as his memberships of learned societies.
Like Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon’s natural history at the royal Jardin du Roi in Paris, or Réaumur’s scientific household with a museum containing a collection of minerals and insects, natural history was strongly connected with the higher echelons of society.57 Not only did it require strong social connections, as we have seen in the case of Lyonet, but also an expensive cabinet, where shells, fossils, and insects could be observed and displayed. While Réaumur was acting as a head of a scientific household, managing both the production of knowledge in the gardens, cabinets and artist workshops, he also maintained vital social relations, such as the ties between the household and the Académie des Sciences.58 In the same way, Lyonet depended on such facilities. As we have seen, Trembley and Bentinck generously assisted him in solidifying social relations and entering learned societies; but they also provided a garden for him where he could carry out his studies. The Bentinck estate, Sorgvliet, functioned as a center for the production of natural historical knowledge. The estate was just outside The Hague, where Lyonet worked, and its large gardens were based on French garden architecture.59 Yet the gardens still preserved some original natural forms, such as a natural rivulet and the surrounding dunes and woods (see figs. 3 and 4). Trembley was a diplomat for the Bentinck family and carried out his research from the 1740s onwards at Sorgvliet. As such, Sorgvliet was a place where politics and natural history could meaningfully co-exist and cross-pollinate. It is here that Lyonet’s roles as a naturalist and government official could seamlessly overlap and reinforce each other.
‘General View of the Gardens of Sorgvliet.’ Engraving by Johannes Jacobsz van den Aveele. Amsterdam: Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier, with privilege of the Staten Generaal, ca. 1721–1774. Rijksmuseum: RP-P-1902-A-22494, http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.335728.
‘Design of the beautiful Garden of Sorgvliet, near The Hague’. Engraved by Johannes Jacobz van den Aveele. Amsterdam: Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier, with privilege of the Staten Generaal, ca. 1721–1774. Rijksmuseum: RP-P-1902-A-22497, http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.335729.
Tellingly, Lyonet’s three main virtues – devotion to God, devotion to the state, and good moral behavior – are all emphasized in an eulogy published shortly after his death in 1789.
He was a friend of all who practised and cherished the Arts and Sciences. From his youth onwards, his conduct was always irreproachable. He was a Christian from conviction, was truly fond of the virtue, the divine worship, and his father, and propagated this publicly. […] always having one ground rule, to do nothing willfully, when it could hurt honor, duty, or conscience.
One can say in truth, that erudition, arts sciences – particularly that of natural history–, fatherland and true divine worship, are obliged to him, and did not lose little with his death; in one word, that he bestowed his fatherland with extraordinary honor.60
This eulogy highlights some of the most sought-after characteristics of a gentleman scholar in the eighteenth century: dedication to the arts, sciences, fatherland, and etiquette (honor and duty). Similar memories of Lyonet are also repeated in a biography written by S.E. Croiset, his nephew and successor in government.61 Similar biographies with a strong focus on virtue persisted until the end of the nineteenth century.62 W.H. van Seters replaced that narrative by focusing on Lyonet’s drawing and works, and consequently retroactively hailed Lyonet as one of the first entomologists.63 This paper has sought to nuance that view by focusing on the social dimensions of Lyonet’s naturalist practices.
To conclude, Lyonet’s work on the study of insects cannot be considered without their profound social dimensions and motivations. His success as a naturalist largely depended on his local connections and his position within the noble and governmental economy of social status. As has been shown, Lyonet’s ability to correspond with Réaumur almost entirely hinged on Trembley’s careful introduction. Similarly, Lyonet could only gain access to the Royal Society in London, and subsequently other learned societies, on account of the recommendations by Trembley, Willem Bentinck, and his new correspondent, Réaumur. The success of a naturalist thus depended on his local connections, and usually these were nobles whose names carried considerable weight (such as Bentinck’s).
Once settled in the learned world, Lyonet aimed to serve the public good with his so-called ‘pure theology’. His microscopical and natural historical work on insects was not in any way a form of ‘scientific’ or ‘empirical’ observation; the religious overtones in his work are abundant. This way, Lyonet could serve the state (or the ‘public good’), worship God by studying his creation, and acquire social status as a virtuous gentleman. These gentlemanly virtues could be practiced and displayed through Lyonet’s microscopical studies of insect anatomy. Just like Peter Gabry, whose downfall Lyonet had helped bring about,64 Lyonet found the added status and prestige he did not get by means of a noble birth in the gentlemanly study of nature. Fortunately for Lyonet, his attempts to gain social status and prestige through the pursuit of natural history was more successful. Although Lyonet is not remembered as a stellar entomologist, his exemplary eighteenth-century virtuous behaviour and social status is worthy of our attention.
1A. Trembley, Mémoires, pour server à l’histoire d’un genre de polypes d’eau douce, à bras en forme des cornes (Leiden 1744).
2J.F. Lesser, Theologie des Insectes, ou demonstration des perfections de Dieu, dans tout ce qui concerne les Insectes, commentary by P. Lyonet, 2 vols. (La Haye 1742).
3For a comprehensive biography of Pierre Lyonet, see W.H. van Seters, Pierre Lyonet, 1706–1789: Sa vie, ses collections de coquillages, et de tableaux ses recherches entomologiques (The Hague 1962). For Lyonet as a cryptographer, see K.M.N. de Leeuw, Cryptology and statecraft in the Dutch Republic (Amsterdam 2000) 24–30.
4P. Lyonet, Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de justo quæstionis usu (Leiden 1731).
5Admission Court of Justice of Holland (Hof van Holland), 1731, Leiden, Boerhaave Museum Library (hereafter BML): Arch 162f.
6Admission Supreme Court (Hoge Raad), 1736, BML: Arch 162h.
7B. Chen, ‘Digging for Antiquities with Diplomats: Gisbert Cuper (1644–1716) and his Social Capital’, Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 1 (2009).
8B. Chen, ‘Politics and Letters: Gisbert Cuper as a Servant of Two Republics’, in M. Keblusek and B.V. Noldus (eds.), Double Agents: Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 154 (Leiden 2011) 71–94.
9H.J. Zuidervaart, ‘“A Plague to the Learned World”: Pieter Gabry, FRS (1715–1770) and His Use of Natural Philosophy to Gain Prestige and Social Status,’ History of Science 45 (2007) 287–326.
10S. Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago and London 1994).
11For an introduction to the Republic of Letters, see H. Bots and F. Waquet, La République des Lettres (Paris, 1997); A. Goldgar, Impolite Learning: Conduct and community in the Republic of Letters, 1680–1750 (New Haven, CT 1995); D. van Miert, ‘What was the Republic of Letters: A brief introduction to a long history (1417–2008)’, Groniek 204/205 (2010) 269–287.
12S. Stegeman, Patronage and services in the Republic of Letters: The network of Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen (1657–1712) (Amsterdam 2005) 355–444; idem, ‘How to set up a scholarly correspondence: Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen (1657–1712) aspires to membership of the republic of letters’, Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources 20 (1993) 227–243.
13Ibidem 233.
14[René Antoine Ferchault de] Réaumur, Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des insectes, 6 vols. (Paris 1734–1742).
15Membership proposal letter of Réaumur, 1739, London, Royal Society Archive (hereafter RSA): EC/1739/07.
16For an overview of Réaumur’s practice of natural history, see M. Terrall, Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century (Chicago 2014).
17C. Bonnet and R. Savioz (ed.), Mémoires autobiographiques (Paris, 1948) 51.
18For a more detailed account of Bonnet’s work and the issue of (spontaneous) generation, see V.P. Dawson, Nature’s Enigma: The problem of the Polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur (Philadelphia 1987) esp. 167–176.
19Membership proposal letter of C. Bonnet, 1743, RSA: EC/1743/08.
20See e.g. Bentinck’s role in the Orangist revolution in 1747, J.I. Israel, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477–1806 (Oxford 1998) 1067–1078.
21Dawson, Nature’s Enigma (n. 18) 96–105.
22‘Je m’aperçois de léxtrême longueur de ma letter. Pardonnez-moi, Monsieur, mon indiscretion. Je me contredis moi-même. Je veux vous témoigner ma reconnaissance, et je vous expose à l’ennuyeuse lecture des recherches d’un écolier, après avoir goûte dans celles de vos ouvrages tant d’agrémens, et qui continuellement encore est pour moi une source de plaisirs doux et transquilles, et dans lesquels je trouve tant de connaissances qu’il seriat impossible de trouver ailleurs. Je me impose silence pour l’avenir et je vous promets. Monsieur, de ne le romper qu’au ca sue je trouve quelque animal ou quelque fait qui paraisse tout à fait digne de vous être comminuqué.’ Trembley to Réaumur, December 15, 1740, in É. Guyénot (ed.), Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley comprenant 113 lettres (Geneva 1943) 115.
23M.J. Ratcliff, ‘Abraham Trembley’s Strategy of Generosity and the Scope of Celebrity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century’, Isis 95 (2004) 555–575.
24‘J’ai un ami ici [dans La Haye] qui en a aussi observe un [Chenille], et qu’il a vu accoucher, quoiqu’il l’ait tenu dans un parfait solitude depuis sa naissance.’ Trembley to Réaumur, September 26, 1740, in Guyénot (ed.), Correspondence (n. 22) 6.
25‘P.S. Il y a ici un Monsieur Lionnet [sic] fort attaché à l’étude des insectes, qui a vu sortis d’une chenille assez grande qu’il nourrissait un ver de neuf pouces de long […] Il a vécu deux jours après être sorti. Il rampait et se tortillait. Je l’ai vu sec; il semble une corde de violon. Monsieur Lionnet [sic] dessine parfaitement. Il a représenté tous ses entortillemens.’ Trembley to Réaumur, December 15, 1740, ibidem 15.
26Stegeman, ‘How to set up’ (n. 12).
27For an overview of the correspondence and an interpretation, see E. Hublard, Le naturaliste hollandais Pierre Lyonet: sa vie et ses oeuvres (1706–1789) d’après des lettres inédites (Bruxelles 1910); there is also an overview of Lyonet’s letters in Van Seters, Pierre Lyonet (n. 3) 185–188.
28For an overview of scientific societies, see J. McClellan III, Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century (New York 1985).
29M. Biagioli, ‘Etiquette, Interdependence, and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century Science’, Critical Inquiry 22.2 (1996): 193–238.
30B. de Haan, De Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, 1752–1952 (Haarlem 1952); W.W. Mijnhardt, Tot Heil van ’t Menschdom (Amsterdam 1988) 86–90.
31Proposal letter Abraham Trembley, May 19, 1743, RSA: EC/1743/03.
32Minutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society, November 30, 1743, RSA: CMO/3/108.
33This sentence appears in almost every proposal letter Trembley has written, e.g., Proposal leter J.N.S. Allamand, January 22, 1747, RSA: EC/1746/14.
34Proposal letter Pierre Lyonet, July 2, 1747, RSA: EC/1747/13.
35De Haan, Hollandsche Maatschappij (n. 30) 8–9.
36Minutes October 15, 1753, in Minute book (1752–1767), Haarlem, Noord-Hollands Archief, Archief Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (hereafter: HMdW), toegang 44, inv.nr. 12, p. 26.
37Lyonet to Van der Aa, May 20, 1762, HMdW, toegang 444, inv.nr. 37.
39See ibidem, toegang 44, inv.nr. 12, p. 271; toegang 444, inv.nr. 35, 37, and 96.
40Zuidervaart, ‘Pieter Gabry’ (n. 9) 300–307.
41P. Lyonet, ‘Beschryving van een microscoopstel, geschikt tot het ontleden van kleine dieren, mitsgaders eenige aanmerkingen over het vermogen der vergrootende glazen’, in Verhandelingen uitgegeven door de Hollandse Maatschappy der Wetenschappen, te Haarlem, part III (Haarlem 1757) 378–413.
42BML: Arch 162i–n.
43‘Ik zoek u tot mannen van verdiensten te maaken; maar ik zoek u tevens uw leven vermaakelyk te doen slyten […] Vestigt geduurig een oplettend oog op het bekoorlyk Schilderstuk, ’t welk de Natuur u vertoont, en gy zult wys, gy zult gelukkig worden, gy zult duizend kwyningen voorkomen, duizend ongeneugten weeren. Gewent u inzonderheid om zo veele geringe en veragte voorwerpen […] met die opmerking en verwondering te beschouwen, welke de zigtbaare konst en tedere zorg des wyzen Scheppers, in derzelver maakzel en levenswyze zo heerlyk doorstraalende, van elk redelyk mensch billyk verdienen. […] zo eerbiedt die Ligten der wereld, die begunstigers van ’t Menschdom, die ’t zelve leeren in stillen vrede Gods wonderen aandagtig te beschouwen.’ G.G. de Beaurieu, Kort begrip van de historie der insecten, vol. I (Amsterdam 1768) iv–v.
44On the topic of ‘popular’ natural history, see J. Drouin and B. Bensaude-Vincent, ‘Nature for the people’, in N. Jardine, J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary (eds.), Cultures of Natural History (Cambridge 1996) 408–425. On the translation in the Enlightenment, see R. Vermij, ‘Translating, Adapting, Mutilating: Or, How to Make an Enlightenment Classic’, Isis 109.2 (2018) 333–338.
45M. Terrall, ‘Masculine Knowledge, the Public Good, and the Scientific Household of Réaumur’, Osiris 30 (2015) 187.
46‘Je ne doute pas, au reste, que ceux qui ramènent tout à leur utilité directe, ne trouvent que j’ai bien mal employé mon tems de l’avoir […] Combien de fois ne m’a-t-on pas reproché d’avoir appliqué le pen de talens que l’on me prête, à des sujets de cette nature, an lien d’en faire usage pour des objets plus utiles & plus rélèvés, ou de n’avoir pas du moins travaillé sur le Corps humain, si je voulois dissequer …’ P. Lyonet, Traité anatomique de la chenille qui ronge le bois de saule (La Haye 1760) xiv.
47E. Jorink, Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575–1715, Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 191 (Leiden and Boston 2010).
48C. Doron, ‘The Microscopic Glance: Spiritual Exercises, the Microscope, and the Practice of Wonder in Early Modern Science’, in S. Vasalou (ed.), Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge 2012) 179–200.
49J. Swammerdam, Bybel der natuure, of historie der insecten […] (Leyden 1738). For a consideration of the religious dimension of Swammerdam’s work, see Jorink, Reading the Book of Nature (n. 47) 219–239.
50C.W. Smith, Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Charlottesville, VA and London 2016).
51‘… plus je l’examine, plus j’y trouve d’arrangement & d’intelligence. Tout y concourt à un but marqué. C’est un machine composée de diverses substances … une machine, où tout est en mouvement, qui se transporte d’un endroit à un autre … Je ne puis réflèchir sur tout cela, sans me dire, ceci ne s’est point ainsi fait par hasard. Il doit absolument avoir été composé par un Etre qui possède, dans le degré le plus sublime, les secrèts les plus cachés de l’Hydraulique, de la Chymie, & des Mechaniques; par un Etre, en qui une intelligence sans bornes se réunit à un pouvoir absolu sur la Matière, & chez qui les espaces les plus resserrés ne sçauroient porter obstacle à l’excution des Plans les plus vastes …’ Lyonet, Traité anatomique (n. 46) xv–xvi.
52Ibidem vii.
53Ibidem 22–23.
54E. Jorink, ‘Between Emblematics and the ‘Argument from Design’: The Representation of Insects in the Dutch Republic’, in K.A.E. Enenkel and P.J. Smith (eds.), Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts, vol. 1, Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 7 (Leiden and Boston 2007) 147–176.
55E.g. see Lyonet, Traité anatomique (n. 46) 8–11, 21, 22, 39–40, 52.
56E. van der Wall, ‘The Religious Context of the Early Dutch Enlightenment: Moral Religion and Society’, in W. van Bunge (ed.), The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650–1750: Selected Papers of a Conference, Held at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 22–23 March 2001, Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 120 (Leiden and Boston 2003).
57E.C. Spary, Utopia’s Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution (Chicago and London 2000) esp. 15–47; Terrall, Catching Nature (n. 16) 134–142.
58Ibidem 44–78; Idem, ‘Masculine Knowledge’ (n. 45).
59V. Bezemer-Sellers, ‘The Bentinck Garden at Sorgvliet’, in J.D. Hunt (ed.), The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century (Washington, DC 1990) 99–129.
60‘Hy was een vriend van allen die Kunsten en Wetenschappen oeffenden en beminden. Van zyne jeugd af aan is zyn gedrag altyd onberispelyk geweest. Hy was uit overtuiging een Christen, beminde de deugd, de Godsdienst en zyn Vaderland opregtelyk, en kwam daar altoos opentlyk voor uit. … hebbende altoos voor een grondregel gehad, niets opzettelyk te doen, ’t geen eer, plicht of geweten, enigzints kon kwetzen.
Naar waarheid kan men zeggen, dat Geleerdheid, Kunsten, Wetenschappen, byzonderlyk die der Natuurlyke Historie, Vader en ware Godsdienst aan hem verpligt zyn, en niet weinig aan zyn dood verloren hebben; in een woord, dat hy zyn Vaderland tot ongemene ere strekt.’ ‘Verslag der Levenbyzonderheden en Geleerde Werken, van wylen den Heer P. Lyonet,’ Algemeene Kunst- en Letterbode 41 (April 10, 1789): 116.
61S.E. Croiset’s draft of a proposal to succeed Lyonet as Secretary of Numbers, BML: Arch 162z, 3b.
62S.C. Snellen van Vollenhove, ‘Levenschets van Mr. Pierre Lyonet’, Album der Natuur 29 (1880) 1–14.
63Van Seters, Pierre Lyonet (n. 3) esp. ‘Troisième partie: Lyonet entomologiste’ 63–160.
64Zuidervaart, ‘Peter Gabry’ (n. 9).
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The Atlas Mindset: Version Control for Infrastructure
Apr 21, 2015 | Kevin Fishner
HashiCorp is the creator of the open source projects Packer, Vagrant, Terraform, Serf, and Consul, as well as the commercial product Atlas. At HashiCorp, we are committed to building tools that provide visibility into operator workflows and allow for responsible changes to infrastructure. Our product development is driven by the qualities of the modern datacenter and qualities of responsible infrastructure management. This post explains our process.
» Qualities of the Modern Datacenter
The modern datacenter has several qualities that differentiate it from predecessors. The modern datacenter is elastic with on-demand resources, designed for massive scale, and diverse with internal technologies. Physical machines, virtual machines, containers, new programming languages, testing tools, and larger code repositories all add complexity to the datacenter each year. But regardless of the technology choices, your organization's goal is always the same — to safely turn application code into a running application in production.
» Qualities of Responsible Infrastructure Management in the Modern Datacenter
Infrastructure management done responsibly is a versioned, auditable, repeatable, and collaborative process. As a reference point, application development became a versioned, auditable, repeatable, and collaborative process with the widespread adoption of version control systems such as Git and Subversion. A good application developer would never start a project without a version control system to track changes and audit the process. Similarly, operators should use a system that enables versioning, auditing, and collaborating on infrastructure changes. Infrastructure development is equally as complex as application development, yet collaboration is difficult due to insufficient tooling. Atlas brings the benefits of version control to infrastructure by holding several beliefs:
Configuration, such as installing packages or creating users, should be done in the build phase, not at runtime. This gives rise to immutable infrastructure, the notion that changes should never be made to a live production server. Instead, create a new server with the proper configuration, and tear down the old server. This reduces the risk of an unhealthy server receiving production traffic due to a runtime configuration failure, and creates a linear history of changes.
Service and infrastructure configurations should be represented as code. This allows the configurations to be versioned, audited, and shared with your team.
Static configuration should never be used to represent dynamic values. There should never be hard-coded IP addresses or stale values in a service configuration. Instead systems should leverage service discovery for dynamic values. The rapid rate of change in the modern datacenter, combined with build-time configuration, necessitate dynamic configurations using service discovery.
» HashiCorp Product Development
The above beliefs about responsible infrastructure management lay the foundation for our product development:
Packer enables simple, repeatable, and automated build-time configuration
Packer and Terraform enable service and infrastructure configuration to be represented as code and shared with teams for collaboration.
Consul enables dynamic service discovery and the removal of easily stale values from service configurations.
Atlas's workflow for turning code into a running application is shown below. The workflow builds on HashiCorp's open source tools as the foundation for responsible infrastructure management.
Each open source project is designed to solve a specific problem in application delivery, and each is purposefully unaware of the other steps. While the individual open source projects are narrow in scope, Atlas unifies them to provide a repeatable, versioned, auditable, and collaborative workflow for turning code into a running application. We are focused on providing an elegant, responsible workflow for managing infrastructure so organizations can focus on building innovative technology, not deploying it. Manage infrastructure responsibly with Atlas today.
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Hawkenbury Pump Track takes another step forward
by HallettBD · 17th April 2019
Following the site visit in August 2018 the HVA has been working with Velosolutions on a design concept for a pump track in Hawkenbury Recreation ground.
The proposed pump track site is north of the floodlit hockey and football pitch. The site was chosen as it is relatively close to the other park facilities and has good access to the main entrances to the recreation ground. It also fits with the proposed expansion of the recreation ground and installation of cycle paths from the new Hollyfields housing development. Details of the site were provided to Velosolutions who then carried out a site survey before completing an initial design.
Proposed Pump Track Site
After several months and several iterations of the design with the HVA the final pump track design can be seen below.
Proposed Pump Track Design
The design considers the constraints within the site which include three large oak trees, emergency access, the location of existing foot paths and the proximity of residents who overlook the track.
The red areas define the buffer zones for the pump track. Around the site boundary there is a 5m buffer. The council tree officer defined ‘Root Protection Areas’ for each tree these can be seen by the large red circles and finally there is a 20m buffer zone to the nearby houses which follows best practice.
Pump Track Boundary
A pump track is an off-road recreational cycling facility defined as a closed loop with closely spaced rollers and rolling features with tight, bermed corners. Pump tracks provide a technical learning facility for the users and are considered a place where riders go to relax, ride themselves but also to watch other riders and socialise. A learning rider will initially pedal around the loop, but as their speed and skill increases, they are able to generate speed from the corners and rollers without pedaling, which is the overall concept behind a pump track.
The Hawkenbury track has been designed to be symmetrical with back-to-back corners with interconnecting sections of track. This type of layout is an effective way of making a safe and fun track without compromising the multiple transfer line options. Riders can ride one long loop in its entirety, in parts, or in combined parts. When the track is busy, riders can ride in a continuous loop, without the fear of another rider transferring into their line, as they have right of way. However, when it is less busy, riders have the option for transfers and different line choices when space permits.
Two rest areas have been included at the north western and north eastern ends of the track, as well as smaller areas to congregate on the top of berms. Riders spend a larger proportion of time observing and coaching others than riding themselves, so provision of areas to safely spend time is important. The HVA specified a full asphalt surface for the pump track which ensures erosion processes are kept to a minimum. This specification also allows for a broader user base allowing skateboards, scooters and inline skates to use the facility. An example of a Velosolutions pump track is shown below, the asphalt surface and side batters laid to grass can be seen which is considered to fit in well with the aesthetics of the recreation ground.
Example Pump Track Layout and Batters Laid to Grass
The next step for the pump track is an open drop-in session where more details of the pump track design proposal will be presented. In this session there will be an opportunity for members of the HVA, residents of Tunbridge Wells and recreation ground users to ask questions about the pump track to the HVA and Velosolutions.
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Rail Minister Jo Johnson has been urged to back the extension of Oyster and contactless payments to Luton, Stansted and Southend airports ahead of the Euro 2020 football tournament.
Tourists arriving at the airports are currently unable to pay for their onward train travel using the plastic cards, meaning many join queues to buy paper tickets.
London's deputy mayor for transport Heidi Alexander has written to Mr Johnson stating that the thousands of football fans who will use the airports to attend Euro 2020 matches at Wembley should be given the "greater flexibility and convenience" of being able to use Oyster and contactless cards.
Acceptance of the cards was extended to Gatwick airport in January 2016. Heathrow and London City airports were already included.
Ms Alexander emphasised that Transport for London has "consistently expressed support for expansion of the technology" and called on Mr Johnson to provide an update on progress "for when these crucial extensions will be rolled out".
She added that it would be a strong signal that "London is open for business in a post-Brexit Britain".
Euro 2020 will be played at venues across Europe, with Wembley hosting seven matches.
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was founded in 1994 as a childrens’ charity with the principle „With children. For children!“ Since then we have been supporting social projects worldwide and encouraging children and young people here in Germany to fight for each other. We believe that with every young person we introduce a new life perspective to and whose help for themselves and anothers we support, we contribute to a better future for all. CHILDREN works towards this independent of background, religion and political affiliation.
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"The children in Africa still have the worst chances of being able to make anything of themselves in life. Our help is needed most there, because there are hardly any opportunites to help.“ No sooner said than done. Michael Steffner and Jürgen Brunny, the two managing directors of quintessenz, have done the job properly this year and given the go-ahead for a new orphanage, where the consulting firm, headquarted in Schwetzingen and Lampertheim, is the sole sponsor.
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Wohanka & Colleagues Inc.
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Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, are shown in a January, 2013. The U.S. Justice Department is readying an investigation of Google’s business practices and whether they violate competition standards, according to news reports. The search giant was fined a record $2.72 billion by European regulators in 2017 for abusing its dominance of the online search market. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission made an antitrust investigation of Google but closed it in 2013 without taking action. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press file photo)
Editorial: Google, Facebook should pay for news they use
Both have made billions selling ads linked to news stories but without paying those who produce the news.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 1:30am
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By The Herald Editorial Board
The good news is that somebody is once again making money from journalism. The bad news is that it’s not those who are doing the actual work of producing journalism; instead, it’s Google and Facebook, which have figured out how to “monetize” the publication of news.
A report Monday in a study for the News Media Alliance holds that Google made $4.7 billion from the work of news publishers in 2018 through advertising linked to its search engine results and its Google News page.
Journalists ought to see some of that revenue, argues David Chavern, the president and chief executive of the alliance, which represents 2,000 U.S. newspapers.
The tech companies “make money off the arrangement,” Chavern said in The New York Times, “and there needs to be a better outcome for news publishers.”
If independent journalism is going to survive — and continue to help communities, states and the nation sustain their democratic institutions — the work of journalists must be supported.
“News publishers need to continue to invest in quality journalism, and they can’t do that if the platforms take what they want without paying for it. Information wants to be free, but reporters need to get paid,” Chavern said in a release.
The problem facing media outlets — newspapers, especially — is a decline in revenue from subscriptions and advertising, a decline that has accelerated as media consumption has moved from print to online platforms. It’s not that people have lost their appetite for trustworthy and valuable journalism; fewer are reading newspapers and magazines, but much of that former audience has shifted online, particularly to mobile devices.
Between 2006 and 2016, U.S. newspaper revenues fell 63 percent; from $49 billion to $18 billion, according to a 2017 report by the Pew Research Center. Even as overall circulation has fallen, Pew found, circulation revenue has shown moderate increases. The biggest losses have been in advertising revenue.
Where did much of that money go?
This is where Google, Facebook and even Amazon have been successful; the tech companies have the advantage of their millions of users and the personal data that users have obligingly provided. By using the data the tech companies have been able to target advertising, piggybacking it on the journalism that their users are increasingly looking for.
Google has denied the News Media Alliance’s $4.7 billion figure, but the study notes Pew’s findings that 93 percent in the United States get at least some of their news from online sources; that Google has in recent years updated its search algorithms to emphasizes news in its search results; and that YouTube, which Google owns, has also increased its news content.
The proof is in the clicks, News Media Alliance’s study finds: 39 percent of results and 40 percent of clicks on trending searches are news results; 16 percent of results and clicks on “most searched” queries are for news.
A few ideas already have been offered to correct the advertising duopoly, including breaking up the big tech companies, ending or limiting their ability to sell targeted ads and even — as proposed in the United Kingdom — requiring Google and Facebook to pay a “journalism tax.”
But what may be in the best interests of newspapers and other journalism producers is for those creating content to share in the advertising juggernaut that Google and Facebook have developed.
That’s the solution proposed in legislation introduced in Congress, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act. Introduced by bipartisan sponsors in the Senate and House, the bill would allow the newspaper industry to collectively bargain with the big tech companies for a share of the advertising revenue, giving them a four-year window — free from antitrust regulation — to negotiate a deal.
The legislation is narrowly tailored to address antitrust concerns; particularly a requirement that the entire industry benefit and not just a few of the nation’s top publishers.
“At the heart of this bill is helping newspapers survive amid shrinking circulations and massive layoffs,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, who with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, introduced that chamber’s bill. “Google and Facebook now control the news kingdom. They’ve pitted themselves against newspapers in a David-and-Goliath battle in which newspapers don’t have a stone to throw much less a slingshot to put it in. The readers are the true losers as newsrooms empty out across this country.”
The legislation has support from 48 press associations in 49 states, including the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington and the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association.
Why would Google or Facebook even entertain the idea of negotiating a deal to share advertising revenue?
Because, without a robust culture of newspapers and other sources of journalism to produce the content that users are demanding, eventually neither will have much with which to attract advertisers.
Or does either think they can make $4.7 billion a year in selling advertising next to cat videos?
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Schoolcraft president settles election complaint with $75 fee to state
The president of Schoolcraft College settled an election-related complaint filed against him in 2018 with $75 fee to state
Schoolcraft president settles election complaint with $75 fee to state The president of Schoolcraft College settled an election-related complaint filed against him in 2018 with $75 fee to state Check out this story on HometownLife.com: https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/livonia/2019/05/10/schoolcraft-college-president-settles-election-complaint/1165631001/
Shelby Tankersley, Hometownlife.com Published 3:23 p.m. ET May 10, 2019
Dr. Conway Jeffress, president of Schoolcraft College. (Photo: Bill Bresler | staff photographer)
Amidst the efforts to pass a tax increase to benefit Schoolcraft College in the 2018 election, President Conway Jeffress used his public email account to recruit supporters. Because he used that public account, a complaint was made against him for allegedly violating the Michigan Campaign Finance Act.
Jeffress, according to the agreement made with the Secretary of State, settled with a $75 with the state last month in an effort to avoid the litigation process. The violation, if convicted, would have been a $100 fine from the state.
Jeffress is stated in the agreement as believing that because of his position as a "policy making official," he was exempt under the Act.
The complaint was filed in late October 2018 by attorney Karen Woodside, saying Jeffress had emailed "everyone" with a Schoolcraft email address at least two times, saying the millage would "benefit" students and staff "personally." The complaint also cites three separate instances where students and staff were urged by administration to support the millage.
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Woodside alleged this was in violation of the Campaign Finance Act because Jeffress, acting for the public college, used public resources to gain support.
Ultimately, the millage passed, upping the tax in the Schoolcraft district to 2.27 mills for the next decade, which will total around $7.1 million.
The college had not returned requests for comment as of print time.
Contact Shelby Tankersley at STankersle@hometownlife.com or 248-305-0448.
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The Industry 4.0 Arms Race Continues
BY: HANS ALBRECHT, CIM®, FCSI, VICE-PRESIDENT, PORTFOLIO MANAGER AND OPTIONS STRATEGIST, HORIZONS ETFS
China is making a massive investment push into artificial intelligence (“A.I.”) and cloud computing, and has said very openly that it wants to lead the world in A.I. by 2030.
The United States will not sit idly by while this happens. The new Industry 4.0 technology arms race to “build the infrastructure that will meet the computing needs of the era of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things” is on – and is just getting going. It’s not just about smart gadgets; it’s also a matter of national security. In this new world, power may come from organizing and controlling data, and using it as influence. The power of a strategic breakthrough in A.I. or quantum computing could have deep ramifications from a geopolitical standpoint. Think of what’s happening as an urgent need that is a priority for both private companies and nations.
The key to moving forward in these areas is hardware – and chipsets are at the heart of the process. In fact, it’s quite possible that at some point every chip will have an embedded A.I. capability. What is also important is creating chipsets that are appropriate to the level of the computation needs for each application – not too fast, not too slow, not too expensive and not running too hot. This is leading to a kind of specialization in chipsets. NVIDIA Corporation (“NVDA”) is leading the revolution in deep-learning chipset manufacture.
NVDA hit a rough patch in late 2018 with cryptocurrency sales plunging and its latest gaming processor sales soft. But in my view, that is a distraction. What matters are trends with staying power, and NVDA is a key player in those trends. Despite these small hiccups, A.I. and cloud computing (datacentres) are big focus-areas for NVDA. The company just bought Mellanox, an Israeli chip-maker whose products improve datacentre connectivity.
What are the challenges in the area of large datacentres? Central processing units (“CPUs”) just aren’t competent enough. Moore’s Law is breaking down because they simply can’t fit any more transistors on a chip. Datacentres are overwhelmed due to A.I. and machine-learning-data-crunching needs. That’s where NVDA and Mellanox come in. NVDA makes graphics processing units (“GPUs”) and Mellanox allows multiple computers to efficiently work together – effectively creating a “mega-datacentre”. Together, NVDA and Mellanox power more than half of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers. I believe NVDA will use this acquisition to further dominate an increasingly important area of the data-management business.
NVDA is forging ahead in areas that are incredibly strong – including the server market which accounts for about one-third of their sales (and counting). I think cryptocurrency woes will soon be a fading memory and trends with staying power will once again be the focus. After having been sold off in recent months, NVDA is on sale now and remains a big potential upside contributor to RBOT and FOUR.
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CLEARANCE - Chess Movies 2
The Means and Ends
Catalog Code: B0046RE
'Chess Movies'' represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself, as one would with a text on tactics and problems, without having to set up the positions. It's almost as if one is sitting in a movie theater, watching the film roll by, with the narrative carried along by subtitles.
Unbeatable Deal
SHOPWORN - Chess Movies 2
Quick Tricks
Chess MoviesTM represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library Series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself, as one would with a text on tactics and problems, without having to set up the positions, even though the present volume, Quick Tricks, contains games of ten full moves or more.
SHOPWORN - Let's Play Chess
In this updated and revised second edition of Pandolfini's acclaimed "Let's Play Chess, you will find the rules, the logic, some of the culture and history, and the basic principles of good chess play. Chess is by far the most popular board game in the world. There are millions of players of all ages and the number keeps growing.
CLEARANCE - Let's Play Chess
Handbuch Des Schachspiels - GERMAN EDITION
Catalog Code: B0034IS
This is probably the most famous chess book ever written and is certainly the most influential chess book ever written.Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (21 September 1815 - 16 September 1840) was a German chess master and chess theoretician from Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
The Best Chess-Drill Book For Beginners of All Ages
Catalog Code: B0002SS
From ever popular instructor Bruce Pandolfini comes this entertaining, interactive and effective book for teaching young Chess players and other newcomers to the game.
Beginning Chess
Over 300 Elementary Problems For Players New to the Game
Now even beginners can reap the rewards of Pandolfini's acclaimed teaching system. Over 300 problems, tailored to beginning players, encompass everything a player needs to learn, from the basic rules and vocabulary to the moves of various chessmen to sophisticated strategies. 300 line drawings.
More Chess Openings - Traps and Zaps - VOLUME 2
200 Brand-New Openings for Players of All Levels
The opening is one of the most important parts of the chess game. Weaken your pawns by mistake, and they're taken. Attack wildly and haphazzardly, and your pieces are picked off. Misuse your queen and she's trapped. Carelessly neglect development and you're mated. You've scarely begun, and the game is over. Fortunately, National Master Bruce Pandolfin's More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2, offers drills and skills to help players of all levels avoid these perils and pitfalls.
More Chessercizes - Checkmate
300 Winning Strategies for Players of All Levels
This book offers chess players the ultimate challenge - to find the move or sequence of moves that will finish off the imaginary opponent in a checkmate situation, allowing readers to practice traps and winning opening moves without using a chess board.
Chessercizes
New Winning Techniques for Players of All Levels
National Master Bruce Pandolfini has created a unique and challenging Chess exercise book for players of all levels. Faced with actual positions from recent tournaments and match play, readers are asked to make the winning move for some of the world's best players, including World Champions Kasparov and Karpov.
Chess Opening - Traps and Zaps - VOLUME 1
202 Openings Designed to Instruct Players of All Levels, Written by America's Leading Chess Writer
In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase.
Pandolfini Endgame Course
Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher
The endgame has always been a particularly instructive phase of chess play. It provides the perfect opportunity for understanding the potential power of each chess piece in every chess situation-from opening move to checkmate. Yet unfortunately, the endgame is often viewed as an inaccessible area of play by average players whose experience is usually limited to watching championship games. Now Pandolfini's Endgame Course changes all that.
Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves
A Study of 101 Outrageous Moves by the Great Chess Champion of All Time
This book contains a collection of the most brilliant, ingenious and outrageous moves ever played by Bobby Fischer, the American who is generally acknowledged to be the greatest chess player of all time.These 101 moves - every one a move that either forced checkmate, gained material or lead to an overwhelmingly superior position - have been selected from among all of Fischer's recorded games, most of which were were played under tournament or match conditions.
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SemiRestore-Lite released with support for iOS 10.2
by Joaquim Barbosa on March 23, 2017 — 9 comments
iOS and jailbreak developer CoolStar announced yesterday a new version of the well-known SemiRestore tool, called SemiRestore-Lite.
Unlike the full version of the tool, SemiRestore-Lite is run directly on your jailbroken iOS device, and does not require a computer.
Possible downgrade to iOS 10.2 from iOS 10.2.1 for some users
by Joaquim Barbosa on February 20, 2017 — 63 comments
Are you are stuck on iOS 10.2.1 or higher, having missed the iOS 10.2 signing window and therefore the Yalu jailbreak? If so, you may be in luck today, provided you have the correct setup. Early reports have come in that some devices are creating nonce collisions on iOS 10.3 b1, providing an indirect route back to iOS 10.2 through Prometheus.
For this clever workaround to come off, you must have a device which produces collisions, namely the iPhone 5s or (possibly, though not confirmed on iOS 10.3 b1), an iPad Air. If you do, you may be able to downgrade from iOS 10.2.1 to iOS 10.2 and jailbreak, by first downloading and installing iOS 10.3 beta 1, and then downgrading to iOS 10.2 using futurerestore.
Support for iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus still coming to Yalu jailbreak
by Joaquim Barbosa on February 4, 2017 — 69 comments
Since our most recent post on the subject of Luca Todesco’s Yalu jailbreaks for iOS 10, we have been receiving queries from our readers about the status of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Although the two flagship devices were supported on the first version of the tool, which was for iOS 10(.1(.1)), they were omitted from the follow-up tool for iOS 10.0-10.2.
This has caused some to doubt whether these devices will ever see a stable build of the jailbreak, and whether they have been forgotten about. Fortunately, these worries are groundless; support for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus is still very much planned.
How to enter No Substrate Mode on the iOS 10 jailbreak
Now that yalu102 has been out a while, along with its unstable predecessor for iOS 10.0-10.1.1, many of our readers will no doubt be running one of these two jailbreaks. As is always the case with a jailbreak on a new iOS version, many tweaks are not yet updated, and some can cause crashes or even bootloops.
It is consequently useful to be able to get into No Substrate Mode, to be able to escape tweak-related crashes and remove offending tweaks. The process has changed slightly since the days of the untethered jailbreak due to the fact that current semi-untethered tools do not boot into a jailbroken state. In this guide, we’ll show you how No Substrate Mode is accessed on the Yalu jailbreaks.
Yalu102 beta 7: changelogs and installation advice
by Joaquim Barbosa on February 1, 2017 — 129 comments
In a post from a few days ago, I outlined the changes which had been made to Luca Todesco’s yalu102 tool as it passed through its beta builds, which at that point had reached Beta 3.
The jailbreak tool is now on its seventh iteration, and in this article I’ll outline the changelog for each beta, as well as my opinion on the tool’s current state.
iOS 10.2 no longer being signed by Apple makes it impossible to downgrade
by Joaquim Barbosa on January 30, 2017 — 104 comments
In the last few minutes Apple closed the signing window for iOS 10.2. That means that you can no longer upgrade, downgrade, or restore to that firmware, either over-the-air or through iTunes. You also can no longer save blobs for iOS 10.2 through any tool.
New yalu102 betas released with support for iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, and more
Following on from the initial release of yalu102 a few days ago, today saw two more betas posted to Luca Todesco’s webpage. And for those who have been patiently for support for their device, this is welcome news.
How to downgrade (or update) to iOS 10.2
by Joaquim Barbosa on January 27, 2017 — 66 comments
We recently covered the release of Luca Todesco’s first build of yalu102. This tool will eventually allow all 64-bit devices to jailbreak iOS 10. iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be able to use it on iOS 10.0-10.1.1, all other 64-bit devices will be able to use it on iOS 10.0-10.2.
As the signing window for iOS 10.2 could close at any time, the pressure is on to downgrade to iOS 10.2 if you are currently on a higher firmware. Some people on a lower firmware should also upgrade to iOS 10.2, but not everyone. In this guide, we’ll talk you through how to upgrade/downgrade to iOS 10.2 from a lower/higher firmware, if you are one of the people who should be there.
How to jailbreak iOS 10.0-10.2 with yalu102
Luca Todesco just announced the first beta build of his Yalu jailbreak for iOS 10.0-10.2. In this guide, I’ll walk you through how to use the tool, should you want to try out the beta.
Bear in mind, this tool is first release and is not necessarily stable. It also does not support all devices yet. Whilst Todesco has said that it should already be more stable than the betas of Yalu for 10.0-10.1.1, a first build is a first build. Proceed at your own risk.
iOS 10.2 Yalu jailbreak beta build now available
Hot on the heels of the source code being posted to GitHub yesterday, Luca Todesco has posted a very early build of the tool to his website. Work on the GitHub code proceeded quickly after its posting last night, with Todesco and others merging several commits to enable Substrate, add more device support, and streamline the tool.
iOS 10.2 Yalu beta jailbreak source code released
Luca Todesco has just posted the incomplete source code for his iOS 10.2 Yalu jailbreak to Github. Bear in mind, this is only an initial commit and does not even contain the entirety of the code, including patches, which will be required for the final product.
iOS 10.2.1 and jailbreaking: what are my options?
What with the release of iOS 10.2.1 and the soon-to-be-closed signing window for iOS 10.2, many people are wondering what the best strategy is for their device. Should they stick with a jailbroken firmware or jump to iOS 10? If they’re already without a jailbreak, which iOS version do they need to be on to make sure they get one? What do they need to do to be able to upgrade to iOS 10.2 later, and keep their jailbreak for now?
In this article, we’ll quickly go through what we consider the smartest options for each device and iOS version, so that you can (hopefully) make an informed decision.
Extensively updated to reflect beta release of Yalu for 10.2.
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WHAT IS IFFO?
IFFO PARTNERS
IFFO MANAGEMENT
Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office /
IBRF
inSight: Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation
Last Sunday (14 May), as a member of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region delegation, I attended the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing. Let me share with you some of my thoughts in this article. Judging by the number and ranking of the participants, it was a truly high-level summit. With as many as 1,500 participants from over 130 countries and 70 international organisations, including nearly 30 foreign heads of state and government, the event is a clear testament that the Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative is highly regarded by and receives broad recognition from countries all over the world. President Xi Jinping said in his address that the B&R Initiative represented an open and inclusive platform for development, with equal participation by all countries and following the principles of “wide consultation, joint construction and shared benefits”.
In just three years or so since the concept was first raised in autumn 2013, the B&R Initiative has gained support from the international community. In particular, amid the current anti-globalisation, anti-free trade and xenophobic sentiment in some major Western industrial countries, a vision that rejects “closed-door” narrow-mindedness and introversion while vowing steadfastly to look at problems and find solutions from the lofty perspective of global development and governance requires much courage and a big commitment.
In the process of moving the B&R Initiative forward, Hong Kong cannot be left out. With our unique advantages, we can indeed play a very important role. After attending the Forum’s plenary session in the morning, I joined a panel session on Financial Connectivity in the afternoon as a speaking guest. It was like a gathering between old acquaintances. Moderating the panel was Mr Zhu Ming, an old friend for years from his time as former Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and former Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China. Among the seven other panelists, five of them were partners of the HKMA’s Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office (IFFO), including Ms Hu Xiaolian, Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of China; Mr Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of Blackstone Group; Mr Yi Huiman, Chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; Ms Jin Qi, Chairman of Silk Road Fund; and Mr Jose Vinals, Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC.
On “Financial Connectivity”, the focus of the panel discussion was on how to facilitate investment and financing for B&R infrastructure projects. I certainly didn’t miss out on the opportunity to promote Hong Kong’s strengths.
Firstly, Hong Kong has all the prerequisites as an investment and financing hub for the B&R Initiative. Being the premier international financial centre in Asia, we can be a one-stop shop in providing various services, including investment and financing, professional services, and risk management, for infrastructure projects around the world and in particular within the region. Hong Kong is the global offshore renminbi business hub. It is also the best place for Mainland enterprises to test the water, and the ideal springboard from which they can “go out”. These put us in a very advantageous position for taking part in the B&R Initiative.
Furthermore, we have the first-mover advantage due to proximity. Under “One Country”, we are privileged to start early in leading the way, while under “Two Systems”, we are able to bring the Mainland and international investors and other stakeholders together. During the panel discussion, I specifically mentioned the establishment of IFFO by the HKMA in July last year. In less than one year, we have lined up more than 60 heavyweight and like-minded organisations from home and afar as our partners, including multilateral development banks, infrastructure project developers and operators, banks, insurance companies and professional service firms, as well as institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and private equity funds with total assets under management over US$4 trillion. As a platform for sharing information and experience and increasing their mutual understanding, IFFO seeks to raise interest in infrastructure financing and facilitate infrastructure investment and financing activities and opportunities.
During the high-level Debt Financing and Investors’ Roundtables held in March this year, IFFO developed a reference term sheet for infrastructure investment, setting out the potential risks associated with various types of infrastructure investments and the mitigation measures to help reduce the risks, including financial risk (e.g. exchange rate fluctuations), business risk (e.g. counterparty delinquency or default), construction risk and regulatory risk. The reference term sheet is unprecedented in public and private sector investment and financing, as it contains a list of key requirements that both investors and operators have to understand and implement. With the reference term sheet, project developers can address more specifically the concerns and expectations of investors when seeking funding, while investors can have more confidence in tapping the emerging markets.
Infrastructure financing, put simply, means matching “money looking for projects” and “projects looking for money”. Off to a good start, IFFO has laid a solid foundation for the development of infrastructure financing in Hong Kong. The next step will be to make good use of the cluster of good partners at IFFO to create a more specific new platform that will be instrumental in matching capital and large-scale infrastructure projects and help bring investment projects to fruition, thereby creating greater and more opportunities for the financial and professional services industry in Hong Kong and contributing to the development of the B&R Initiative.
Norman Chan
Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Drug War Madness
by Laura Carlsen
In 1936, a church group commissioned a film "to strike fear in the hearts of young people tempted to smoke marijuana." But it was not until the 1970s that Reefer Madness â€" billed as “the original classic that was not afraid to make up the truth†due to its grotesque portrayal of the supposed dangers of marijuana â€" obtained cult status.
After the scare tactics of the 1930s, U.S. marijuana policy varied depending on the political climate, even as scientific research consistently debunked extreme claims that the plant caused uncontrollable violent behavior, physical addiction, and insanity.
Then on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon launched his signature “war on drugs.†The new crackdown on illegal drug use shifted the issue from a local health and public safety problem to a series of federal agencies under the direct control of the president. President Ronald Reagan later doubled down on the drug war, ushering in an age of mass incarceration.
Like the film before it, the drug war model not only criminalized but also demonized illegal drug dealing and use â€" and the individuals involved â€" in moralistic and military terms. In many states, selling marijuana carried longer sentences than murder. Although the abuse of legal drugs now kills more people than illegal drugs, the architects of the drug war continues to promote the view that it is some inherent evil of the substance, rather than the way individuals and groups use it, that determines whether a drug is a threat to society or an accepted social custom.
The Drug Policy Alliance has revealed that U.S. authorities arrest some 800,000 people a year for marijuana use. Two-thirds of those incarcerated in state prisons for drug offenses are black or Hispanic, even though consumption rates for whites are equal. Largely because of drug laws and draconian enforcement, the United States has become the world champion in imprisoning its own people, often destroying the hopes and futures of its youth. The United States spends more than $51 billion a year on the domestic war on drugs alone.
Exporting the War on Drugs
The export version of the drug war has an even darker side. It makes the implicit racism of the domestic war overt. Foreign drug lords are stereotypically portrayed as the root of an evil enterprise that, in fact, takes place mostly in the United States, where street sales generate the multibillion-dollar profits of the business. Under the guise of the drug war, the U.S. government has sponsored military responses in other countries that the Constitution prohibits domestically â€" for good reasons.
Attention is diverted from the social roots of drug abuse and addiction at home to a foreign threat to the American way of life â€" a way of life that, regardless of one’s moral beliefs, has always been characterized by the widespread use of mind-altering drugs. The false war model of good vs. evil, ally vs. enemy precludes many community-based solutions that have proven to be far more effective. U.S. taxpayers pay billions of dollars to fumigate foreign lands, pursue drug traffickers, and patrol borders as well as land and sea routes to intercept shipments.
None of this has worked. More than a decade and $8 billion into Plan Colombia, that Andean nation is the number-one cocaine producer in the world. Mexico has exploded into violence as the arrests and killings of cartel leaders spark turf battles that bathe whole regions in blood.
Last month, 52 people lost their lives in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Mexico. The news shocked Mexico since it represents yet another escalation of violence, but it’s become almost routine alongside daily drug-war deaths. For U.S. citizens, it was further proof that Mexico is under an assault by organized crime.
According to some Mexican researchers, the sudden rise in violence in Mexico correlates directly to when President Felipe Calderon launched his crackdown in the war on drugs by sending troops and federal police into the streets in 2006. Meanwhile, Mexican citizens have also taken to the streets to proclaim the war on drugs directly responsible for the growing bloodshed in their country and demand a change in strategy. Calderon has refused to consider alternative models.
Drug-War Failure
This year the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report that concludes that “Political leaders and public figures should have the courage to articulate publicly what many of them acknowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won.â€
Instead, the Obama administration has added fist and firepower to the drug wars. Ignoring 40 years of policy failure, Obama has broken campaign promises to seek a more humane and effective drug policy. His administration has failed to support international harm reduction models, reversed a decision not to go after state medical marijuana regimes voted by popular referendums, reaffirmed marijuana’s classification as a schedule 1 controlled substance with no medical value, and expanded drug wars in Mexico and Central America.
The government reprehensibly continues to expand the failed drug war in the face of the budget crisis and drastic cutbacks in schools, healthcare, and basic social programs. A good example is the multimillion-dollar boondoggle called the “Merida Initiative.†Under this ill-conceived regional security cooperation measure, the United States sends intelligence and defense equipment and provides military and police training for Mexico and, to a lesser degree, Central American countries. This drug-war strategy has increased violence in Mexico and led to a severe deterioration in public safety, rule of law, and human rights. The resources go to Mexican security forces notorious for corruption and even complicity with organized crime.
The results of the drug war in Mexico have been nothing short of catastrophic. Since it began, nearly 50,000 Mexicans have lost their lives in drug-war-related violence. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes, children have been orphaned and traumatized, men, and thousands have been kidnapped and still missing.
The attacks on cartels â€" including the killing or capture of leaders â€" spark turf wars that rage throughout Mexico, with the worst concentrated along the northern border. In response, some cartels have reorganized, with splinter groups frequently employing far more violent tactics than their parent organizations. Military operations have pushed the violence around the country in what experts call a “whack-a-mole†strategy that shows no signs of letting up.
The invented threat of reefer madness has been replaced with the real disaster of drug war madness â€"government perseverance with lethal and ineffective policies. The drug war, with its exaggerated claims and mistaken focus on confronting drug trafficking with police and military force, has cost the United States and its targeted suppliers like Colombia and Mexico millions of dollars and thousands of lives.
In Mexico, a peace movement has arisen against the drug war. It has opened up dialogue with the government but been met with an absolute refusal to consider other options. In the United States, drug-policy reform turns up at the top of lists of issues for town-hall discussions, but politicians dismiss the issue because it's taboo or too risky for their political aspirations.
Policymakers must come to their senses regarding the madness of the drug-war strategy. If they don't voluntarily propose reforms, then citizens will have to force them to do so.
- Originally published by Foreign Policy in Focus
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Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD): Country work
Article, 28 October 2014
Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) is being piloted in countries in Africa and Asia. Each country adapts the framework to its own needs and contributes towards the further development of the framework.
TAMD has been piloted in Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan and Mozambique since 2012. Work has started more recently in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania. Each country case contributes to developing the TAMD framework as well as supporting effective adaptation planning in that context. The framework has been applied in different ways in different countries. It has been used to support local planning, to do a retrospective analysis and to support national indicators.
Watch this video on how TAMD could prove useful within Kenya, Pakistan and Cambodia.
Supporting local planning
Work in Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania has focused on using TAMD to support effective local planning for climate change.
In Kenya, Isiolo County has used TAMD to identify county-level climate risk management (CRM) processes that will enable adaptation or development interventions at ward level. The County Adaptation Planning Committees and Ward Adaptation Planning Committees, supported by LTSA, developed a monitoring framework for Isiolo from 2013-14. It includes theories of change that will attribute adaptation benefits to CRM processes, indicators, assumptions and monitoring and evaluation plans. This framework will be used to assess adaptation benefits at the ward level and link these to national-level development indicators. In December, IIED published a research report on the results of the TAMD feasibility testing phase in Kenya. The approach in Tanzania is similar to that taken in Kenya.
In Mozambique, the TAMD framework has been used to establish and examine plans for climate adaptation by a district council (Guijá District – Province of Gaza) and, as part of that district development plan (this was the first Local Adaptation Plan in place in the country), to identify how to assess the performance of the planned interventions. In December 2014, IIED published a research report on the results of the TAMD feasibility testing phase in Mozambique.
Assessing effectiveness
In Pakistan, the TAMD framework has been used retrospectively as the basis for assessing the actual outcomes of two large-scale interventions – rainwater harvesting in earthquake affected Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkwa, and biogas generation across different parts of the country – from the perspectives of climate adaptation. You can read more about about this approach in our briefing paper Forwards and backwards evidence-based learning on climate adaptation. IIED has also published a detailed research report on TAMD in Pakistan.
In Ethiopia, the Ministry of Agriculture, in partnership with IIED and Echnoserve, has been testing the TAMD approach in assessing and developing the country's climate risk management. The current project has two aims. One is to assess TAMD as a way of understanding how a national climate adaptation programme – in this case the Sustainable Land Management Programme (SLMP-1) – is affecting local communities and how better evaluation can help the government improve the programme's ongoing implementation. The second is to look at how decision-makers manage climate risk at local, regional and national levels.
In December 2014, IIED published a research report on the testing of the TAMD framework in Ethiopia.
In Nepal, TAMD specifically aimed to understand how changes in community and household resilience might be measured and aggregated across different interventions. Nepal has many different climate change programmes and interventions, each with their own monitoring and evaluation frameworks. The TAMD research tested a method to help the government track progress and measure effectiveness as a whole, looking beyond individual projects. This was using a quasi-experimental approach to the TAMD framework.
In Cambodia, the TAMD work has so far focused on institutional indicators at the national level. The team has developed a core set of five cross-cutting indicators that will assist in understanding the extent of institutional readiness and climate risk management at the national level. These indicators were developed in iterative stages and validated and refined at a national workshop in December 2013.
The indicators were finalised and tested through a participatory focus-group discussion with Ministry of Environment staff. These scorecards use an innovative 'readiness ladder' approach, which enables an understanding of where Cambodia is currently placed in an overall process of climate change policy and institutional development, and illustrates progress towards milestones.
You can read more in our briefing paper Developing a national framework to track adaptation and measure development in Cambodia.
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Photos: Fear and defiance mark life for Pakistan’s minority Hazaras
Hazara men have tea and breakfast at a local restaurant in Mariabad, Quetta, Pakistan. Hazaras, said to be descendants of the Mongols who swept out of central Asia to rule the subcontinent for many centuries, are easily distinguishable in Pakistan by their facial features. That has made them vulnerable to attacks by groups such as Pakistan’s banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), and Sunni militant group Islamic State, which has attacked them in both Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan, also home to many Hazaras. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
Pakistan's national flag attached to a vehicle is seen as armed guards, who provide security for Abdul Khaliq Hazara, politician and chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), chat with each other at his residence. Soldiers and security checkpoints greet visitors to Hazara town, one of two large guarded neighbourhoods in the capital of Baluchistan, a province where religious and sectarian groups often target the mostly Shia Hazaras with bombs and guns. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
A Hazara man reads the Koran along a passageway with photos of deceased victims who lost their lives during bomb attacks, at the graveyard. Despite improved security in recent years, partly because most Hazaras have moved into the guarded enclaves, hardline Sunni militants keep up attacks, such as a blast in April that killed 24 people, among them eight Hazaras. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
Mir Hussain Changazi (L) from Hazara community plays Hazargi instrument Damboora, as he sings traditional songs along with Fida Hussain playing Harmonium and Zia Noorband on Tabla, as they practice at Aahanga musical academy. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
Sardar Sahil, 30-year-old Hazara lawyer and rights activist, kisses his mother's hand before leaving for office. “We are living under siege for more than 1-1/2 decades due to sectarian attacks,” he said. “I kiss my mother’s hand and she kisses me too and says goodbye with her prayers and good wishes,” he added. Sahil carries a pistol whenever he leaves home, and relies on his faith as a second layer of security. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
Resident walk past a shop during sunset hours along a street in Mariabad. Many community businesses that flourished in Quetta’s bustling wholesale markets have shuttered and relocated to Hazara Town or Mari Abad, another Hazara neighbourhood. But the community is defiant. Some still venture out into Quetta in search of work, while others keep businesses running. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
Naveed Ali Hazara, 23, poses for a photograph at a gym. "We are doing body-building; firstly to build health and secondly, as sports gives you extra strength and keeps us away from drugs," Naveed said. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
Nargis Hazara, 20, martial arts specialist, works on her computer as she sits beside her portrait at her home. Domestic media often portray the Hazaras as targets of sectarian attacks or holding sit-ins to demand greater protection, but the community is developing and growing, said Nargis, who last year became Pakistan’s first winner of an Asian Games medal in karate. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
People watch traditional music performance during the Hazara Culture Day celebration at the Qayum Papa Stadium. The community held its first Hazara Culture Day to celebrate and showcase its history, music and traditions as it strives to keep its protests peaceful, despite unrest stirred up by militants looking to pit people of different sects against each other, said Abdul Khaliq Hazara, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), which has two provincial assembly representatives. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
Men install Pakistan's national flag on a stall. Many Hazaras have joined the armed forces in Pakistan, where the community’s past and future will stay rooted despite any violence, said another martial arts expert, Mubarak Ali Shan. “We want to serve Pakistan and despite suffering tragedies and incidents, our love for peace has not diminished,” he added. (Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS)
In the southwestern city of Quetta, the Pakistan’s Hazara community has high walls around the neighbourhoods, designed not only to protect them from extremist militants but also serve as a constant reminder of the threat they face. They have several checkposts for security, which makes them feel totally cut off from other communities but despite suffering tragedies and incidents, they strive for peace and development and want to grow as a community.
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Green Reit 'pleased' with sale progression as profits rise
Chairman of Green Reit, Gary Kennedy
Green Reit said it is "pleased" with how its sale process is going and the level of interest expressed to-date.
https://www.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/green-reit-pleased-with-sale-progression-as-profits-rise-38248361.html
https://www.independent.ie/business/article38248360.ece/20476/AUTOCROP/h342/2019-06-25_bus_51358333_I1.JPG
The commercial property firm dramatically put itself on the market earlier this year, following a "comprehensive and carefully considered" review of its options to maximise shareholder value.
The persistent discount between Green Reit's share price and the value of its portfolio of largely high-end commercial property assets was "at the core" of the decision to sell, the group said in April.
"We will provide a further update to shareholders as and when appropriate," Gary Kennedy, chairman of Green Reit, said in a trading update yesterday.
Green Reit was the first Irish real estate investment trust or reit, a special type of company that benefits from reduced taxation. This includes not having to pay corporation tax on rental profits or the standard capital gains on asset sales, as long as it meets certain criteria including only investing in property and distributing the vast bulk of income as dividends each year.
Rental income at the group has increased to €79.4m from €75.5m since January.
When income from lettings with terms agreed and those in advanced discussions are included, then rental income rose to €83.3m in the six month period. This is an increase of 10pc on the annual rent at 31 December, in what the group said were "favourable market conditions."
However the group's vacancy rate has risen to 5pc, from 3.5pc in 2018. Mr Kennedy said: "The leasing success achieved to date in 2019 demonstrates the high quality of our portfolio and the very supportive backdrop of the market, which in quarter one of 2019 witnessed a new record level of take-up in the Dublin office market."
"Combined with the sustained low interest rate environment, the operating environment remains strong across both the occupier and capital markets."
Shares in Green Reit were up just under 2pc yesterday.
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Ducket out to make his Mark in management at Eynesbury Rovers
Updated: Saturday, November 28, 2015 (11:26)
Eynesbury Rovers chairman Matt Plumb.
Eynesbury Rovers have handed Mark Ducket his first job in management at the age of 32.
Ducket will take charge at Hall Road from Monday when becoming the United Counties League Premier Division outfit's third boss of the season.
Dave Northfield, who has been at the helm since the resignation of previous chief Martin Field six weeks ago, will revert to running the club's Under 21 side.
Rovers chairman Matt Plumb said: "I'm very excited to give Mark the job. Even though he's very young he has a wealth of football experience and bags of enthusiasm and energy.
"I now want this management team to take the club forward along with the playing staff."
Ducket has been serving as player-coach at Southern League Division One (Central) club Bedford Town this season.
He has played more than 350 games in a career at higher levels of non-league and in the Welsh League.
Ducket is to be assisted by two 'A' Licence coaches in Ben Watts and Ash Civil.
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Mancodex Rumbles on Tight 2-Tracker ‘Ural Flex’ for IN / ROTATION
Mar 07, 2019 Angus Thomas Paterson
Mancodex is the latest producer to join the ranks of promising up-and-comers who are throwing down sounds for the quirky, bass-heavy US house scene, led by staples like Claude VonStroke and his Dirtybird label. In the case of Mancodex, though, his rumblings are coming to us all the way from Russia, demonstrating the universal appeal that a huge groove can have.
Mancodex has been earning support from some of the scene’s biggest names, while rubbing shoulders with the hottest labels in house music with releases he’s already placed with Box of Cats, Medium Rare Recordings, Audiophile XXL and a career-launching appearance on Dirtybird. He’s now taking it a step further with a tight new two-track offering for IN / ROTATION, adding our own label to the list of his already impressive catalog. Ural Flex demonstrates why he’s such a hotly tipped producer, as both cuts showcase the level of bottom-riding weight he packs into his productions. Stream the business up top, and read on to find out what Mancodex is all about.
Mancodex’s Ural Flex EP is available here.
What’s happening with Mancodex in the opening months of 2019?
I’ve finished a couple of demos—hope to release it soon. Then, I had my first release this year. Two cool tracks are coming up soon on Box of Cats. And now I’m here!
You’ve made a strong impression with your Mancodex alias in the past few years. What’s the story behind this alias, and were you producing prior to launching this project?
Mancodex stands for “Hey, man, Code X.” I heard this phrase from a random guy when I started playing my DJ sets at a party in my hometown six or seven years ago. I guess he meant Code X, like, “It’s time to have fun.” It sounds pretty good, so I took this name.
Are you still based in Russia, and how does this feed into what you do as a DJ/producer?
Yes, I still live in my home country. Russia is really big, but most festivals and events take place in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. That’s why it’s very difficult to live in the central region of Russia and be a part of the scene.
How would you describe the Mancodex sound?
The Mancodex sound is one solid piece of groove and drive. Also, I tried to combine modern and classic sounds to get the right balance and vibe—the vibe is the most important.
Do you feel a special affinity with the house sound coming out of the US right now?
Yeah, absolutely. I’ve been enchanted by the opportunity to release my music there. No matter how much money and followers you have, or where are you from, your music is the main thing. And this is absolutely amazing. My release on Dirtybird proved it.
You’ve got a brand-new two-track release coming out on IN / ROTATION. Tell us about how you connected with the label, and share the story behind the release.
I’ve been following your label since its launch, and I was surprised at how much great music you guys have. After I finished my tracks, I asked my manager, Anton Heas, to send tracks to you. I wanna say a special thanks to Anton for his help. He is the best!
What’s on the agenda for the rest of the year?
More good music. Also, a visit to USA, I hope!
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The ‘No Jerks’ Rule of Investing
This content is from: Opinion
Managers who are arrogant, rude, and selfish aren’t just unpleasant to deal with. They’re also bad at generating returns.
By Chris Schelling
Illustration by II
Reinventing the Investor Experience
Recently, I found myself debating the proposed profit-sharing mechanism of a private equity fund in due diligence talks with the fund’s general partner. This particular manager had been extremely successful in previous funds, and so the new fee structure included premium profit sharing for him. Instead of a 2 percent management and 20 percent incentive fee structure, this manager now wanted to charge partners 2 percent and 25 percent for the privilege of investing with him.
My argument — at least I thought — was a fairly rational one. Since the firm was targeting a larger check size, a higher profit split could not be justified by prior superior performance. Further, the new, bigger fund was generating vastly more management fee dollars anyway. In short, they could stay small and charge more, or grow and keep fees the same, but I thought doing both was inequitable and I couldn’t justify paying for it.
The manager’s response ended the debate, but perhaps not in the way he had hoped.
“What difference does it make to you?” the manager asked. “It’s not your money anyway.”
Needless to say, we did not consummate an investment with said manager. But the discussion did remind me of a due diligence rule I was taught years ago: the “No Jerks Rule.”
It’s fairly self-explanatory: Don’t do business with jerks. People who are arrogant, selfish, dishonest and rude in trivial situations — jerks, you might say — shouldn’t be expected to magically become humble, charitable, honest, and considerate when the stakes are far higher.
It certainly seemed a reasonable lesson, and fortunately for me, there appears to be more behind this simple precept than the gut instinct of my past mentor.
A study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin published in October 2017 looked at the personality traits of 101 hedge fund managers with a collective $4.6 billion in assets under management. By analyzing a videotaped interview of each of the managers, the researchers were able to asses and record behavioral characteristics of the individuals, focusing specifically on the so-called Dark Triad — narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.
First, let’s describe each personality spectrum.
Narcissism primarily entails feelings of self-importance and dominance — such as a sense of superiority, grandiosity, and entitlement — combined with intolerance to criticism. Machiavellianism includes superficial social charm, deceitful behavior aimed at undermining others, and a reliance on manipulation to achieve objectives. Finally, subclinical psychopathy is associated with a lack of empathy or remorse, little to no emotion, high impulsivity, and interpersonal hostility. (You really don’t want to work with the clinically diagnosed ones).
The single most common thread uniting these continua is a tendency for deceitful and malicious behavior focused on the exploitation of others for your own ends. Such characteristics probably aid in the achievement of personal success in many activities by facilitating the determined pursuit of success through adverse conditions and heavy competition. Put another way, jerks are singularly, and callously, focused on reaping benefits for themselves.
And there’s the rub.
Benefits for themselves don’t equate to benefits for others; in fact, for those at the intersection of the Dark Triad, they come at the explicit expense of others.
So, what did the study above find about managers with these attributes? In comparing the individual manager’s scores on the Dark Triad with their investment returns from 2005 to 2015, an interesting insight emerged.
While the average return for the overall group during that period was 7.27 percent annualized, the biggest jerks trailed significantly. The managers that scored highest on the Dark Triad put up just 6.39 percent a year, 0.88 percent behind the average. And those who scored more than 2 standard deviations above the others on the psychopathy scale specifically did even worse, trailing the averages by nearly a third.
Moreover, the authors compared not only nominal returns, but also risk measures, and found that risk-adjusted returns were even lower. Narcissistic managers in particular took far more risk than others, and were not commensurately compensated for it.
Interestingly, these findings echo earlier work by the same authors on the presence of Dark Triad traits in U.S. Senators. In their prior study, the researchers demonstrated that senators who scored higher on the psychopathy measure were less likely to win support for their proposed bills. The most influential senators — those able to win broad support for their initiatives — were instead virtuous, or in the words of the authors, “displayed courage, humanity and justice.”
Upon researching the topic of the Dark Triad further, it becomes apparent that there is a growing amount of well-supported evidence that while these traits may well be associated with individuals successfully attaining positions of power, they are also correlated with poor job performance and unethical behavior, including fraud, across numerous fields.
Pretty solid reasons for sticking with the No Jerks Rule.
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Faraday Future Will "Unveil the Future" at CES 2017
By Joe Carmichael
Filed Under Innovation, Batteries, CES & Tesla
Faraday Future wants you to believe in its electric vehicles. For the past month, the hopeful EV manufacturer has received nothing but bad press: It’s hemorrhaging money and owes millions of dollars in bills; its main investor, LeEco, is losing all its money; the contractor building its factory “halted work” in mid-November; six of its top executives left the company in October.
Those who remain at the company, however, seem unperturbed: On Wednesday, the company teased a prototype of its production car, which it says it will unveil at CES 2017 in January. This car will either solidify or nullify the fledgling manufacturer’s place in the EV market. Faraday Future seems to expect the former. “Witness our first true venture into the battery-powered future of electric vehicles and experience what you’ve all been waiting for at our CES 2017 unveiling in Las Vegas,” Faraday Future writes in a newsletter.
Another glimpse of what can only be the production car's chassis, from Faraday Future's website.
About a month ago, the company first teased its prototype. It was a very limited tease: The car was shown silently racing around a closed track, wrapped in a cover to hide what was underneath. Two 15-second videos offered little information and much allure. Now, it’s attempting to build yet more hype.
There’s no doubt that employees have kept busy, though one could argue that the executives are prodigal. At last year’s CES, Faraday Future unveiled its concept car, the FFZERO1. In July, the company announced a foray into the Formula E racing circuit. Now it’s time for real — not concept — car production.
If Faraday Future plans to mimic Tesla’s business model, this car will be out of most everyone’s price range, with the goal of making enough of a profit to finance the next, slightly more affordable car. If it plans to abandon Tesla’s business model, and compete right away with Elon Musk’s consumer-level EV, the Tesla Model 3. We’ll know which strategy it will take in just under a month — and also whether it can live up to all its hype.
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FBI Official: Illinois Imam Wouldn't Pass Background Check
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The FBI's top agent in Chicago told Illinois State Police (ISP) officials that an imam under consideration to be the agency's first Muslim chaplain wouldn't pass a background test if it were up to his agency.
That comment came before the State Police initially approved Imam Kifah Mustapha's appointment in 2009, a move they later rescinded after the Investigative Project on Terrorism published an article documenting Mustapha's connections to a Hamas-support network.
Mustapha is suing the ISP claiming it violated his 1st and 4th Amendment rights in withdrawing its offer for the chaplain's position. The suit claims the IPT report was flawed and the state had no legitimate grounds to reject him. As part of the lawsuit, Mustapha wants to see ISP and FBI records related to its background check of him.
The U.S. Attorney's Office argued those records are protected from disclosure, in a motion filed Wednesday. In it, the government said FBI Chicago Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Rob Grant had "several" conversations with ISP officials before Mustapha's appointment in which he advised the ISP of Mustapha's worrisome background.
"In each conversation, SAC Grant stated that Mustapha would not pass an FBI background check if he applied for an FBI chaplain position and then proceeded to explain the bases for his opinion," the motion said.
Mustapha's supporters say the ISP's decision was "based on suspicion and paranoia," which they blame on the IPT report. The story cited internal documents from the support network, called the Palestine Committee, which became public during a 2008 prosecution, and other court records.
Grant's statements to ISP officials conducting the background check indicate the IPT story was not the first time the police had heard of Mustapha's questionable background.
There is no reason to believe the information in the conversations could help prove Mustapha's claim that the ISP's decision was based on "discriminatory" reasons, wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Johnson. "Indeed, SAC Grant's advice to ISP that Mustapha would not pass an FBI background check if he applied for an FBI chaplain position strongly suggests just the opposite."
The government motion focuses on whether Mustapha's lawyers can obtain material for discovery in the litigation and not on the factual nature of the issues that caught the ISP's attention. Attorneys with the Council on American-Islamic Relations are representing Mustapha.
He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five former officials. In 2008, a Dallas jury convicted the defendants on more than 100 counts tied to illegally funneling money to Hamas. Mustapha served as a paid Holy Land Foundation employee from 1996 until the group's assets were frozen by the federal government in 2001.
Mustapha also served as a member of a volunteer committee for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). In testimony given in another case, Mustapha recalled donating money to HLF and "maybe" IAP. Like the Holy Land Foundation, the IAP was an arm of the Palestine Committee, which was created to promote the Hamas agenda financially and politically in the United States.
Additionally, Mustapha sang in a band that performed at HLF fundraisers. In one video, submitted as evidence in the HLF trial, Mustapha sings, "O mother, Hamas for Jihad. Over mosques' loudspeakers, with freedom. Every day it resists with stones and the dagger. Tomorrow, with God's help, it will be with a machine gun and a rifle."
The FBI's Grant, meanwhile, is known for his outreach in the Chicago Muslim community. In 2009, he attended a meeting of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC) to assure members that the FBI doesn't targets mosques for investigations.
"The FBI unequivocally does not plant informants in mosques or any other houses of worship," Grant said. He urged attendees to report any FBI agents acting in an inappropriate manner.
Though Grant predicted Mustapha could not pass an FBI background check, Mustapha was allowed to tour the National Counterterrorism Center and FBI headquarters in September 2010.
"If we thought he was a security risk, we wouldn't have included him," on the tour, which is part of the FBI's Citizens' Academy, said Chicago FBI spokesman Ross Rice.
According to the FBI Citizens' Academy website, "Because of the classified investigative techniques discussed, nominees must also undergo a background check and get an interim security clearance."
For a detailed profile of Mustapha's ties to Hamas-linked groups, click here.
Related Topics: Civil suits, Kifah Mustapha, Illinois State Police, Holy Land Foundation, FBI, Rob Grant, Civil suits
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If someone at the FBI had attempted to block Mustapha's tour of the FBI counterterrorism center, our buddy Eric Holder who have come down on that person like a ton of bricks.
Islam, in most any form, is favored by the Oblamer Admin. Just don't let any Israelis in there!!
Get it Right This Time FBI
Submitted by RobH, May 27, 2011 11:52
"Maybe I gave money to fund terrorism. Heck, guys, I don't recall." Of course, I paraphrase, but even to admit the possibility in spite of weak memory, doesn't that tell it all? The fact that the FBI was so naiive as to allow this group to tour a facility goes beyond PC right to MI (mental illness--on the part of the idiot who allowed the tour in the first place). It is a "good paranoid" to suspect people involved with the Holy Land Foundation or its affiliates.To hire this guy as a spiritual leader for good Muslims wherever you may find them, sounds like yet another mistake on the part of the FBI. Where is Ephram Zimbalist when you need him?
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The growth of factor-based investing
Advisers are making decisions about clients' portfolios by using the same characteristics that govern factor-based ETFs
The steady migration of investor assets out of actively managed mutual funds and into passively managed exchange-traded funds is fueling the growth of factor-based investing, an old idea that has taken on new appeal for financial advisers and retail investors.
Much of the growth in factor-based products has occurred over the past few years. According to a recent report by Morningstar Inc., almost $800 billion is now invested in nearly 1,500 factor-based exchange-traded products, up from approximately $700 billion a year ago and $600 billion two years ago.
Along with that growth in factor-based ETFs has come an increased use of factor analysis by financial advisers.
Growth in assets in U.S. factor-based ETFs
Source: Morningstar Direct, Morningstar Research. Data as of Dec. 31, 2018.
Factor-based investing looks at a number of characteristics that are associated with either higher returns or lower risk, such as momentum, value or size. For advisers, the appeal of factor analysis is the ability it provides to make investment decisions based on those factors, which are regarded as a more precise tool for portfolio construction and risk management.
"It's been a journey for me away from active managers and toward factor funds, but I'm now analyzing client portfolios based on factor exposures," said Eric Walters, president of Silvercrest Wealth Planning.
'More Technical'
"Active managers are trying to guess the market," Mr. Walters said. "With factor investing, I decide which factors are important to my clients and I do the research looking for funds where those factors are most robust. It's more technical than just picking active managers."
James Gambaccini, managing partner at Acorn Financial, said factor investing has become his competitive edge.
"We determine what factors we need in a client's portfolio and then screen the entire fund universe for those factors," Mr. Gabaccini said. "The real advantage is on the risk side, because when markets go down, our portfolios don't seem to go down as much."
For example, an adviser might use factor analysis to identify less expensive versions of a client's current portfolio. Or an adviser with a client in or near retirement who is looking to reduce investment risk without completely getting out of the market might look at low-volatility factor strategies that could be used in place of funds with more aggressive growth attributes.
Mike Buonassisi, vice president and portfolio manager at Altium Wealth, cites the risk-management benefits of factor-based investing.
"The way we design portfolios for clients is with core strategic asset allocation models; then we optimize factor exposure based on where we are in the business cycle," he said. "From a risk-management standpoint, it worked great last year."
Mr. Buonassisi also believes the quantitative nature of factor investing can help advisers keep clients calm in times of market turbulence.
"One of the bigger things is it keeps investor biases out of the portfolio, because by having the correct factors from a risk-management standpoint, it keeps clients in the market," he said. "If we get risk right, the returns will take care of themselves over a long period of time, and we know that staying in the market is the important part."
Factor strategies, which are packaged mostly in ETF form, are often promoted as a kind of active-passive hybrid that checks all the right boxes in terms of low fees, liquidity and transparency without being a pure index fund that just moves in stride with the broad markets.
"A big part of the appeal is that factor investing is not expensive and underperforming active management, and it's not just an index," said Dana D'Auria, managing director at Symmetry Partners, which builds factor-based model portfolios for advisers.
Ms. D'Auria said the first challenge in using factors to invest is getting advisers on board with a concept that is not always intuitive.
'The source of returns'
"To understand factor investing, you have to understand that factors are the source of returns whether you know it or not," she said. "Our findings are that a lot of the advisers don't know what to ask for in the factor space, but they understand academic research has uncovered this, and that it can probably benefit clients."
Factor research has been employed for decades by institutional investors. But evolving technology is making it easier to measure investment characteristics such as growth, value and momentum for any security, fund or client portfolio.
For a lot of advisers, the move toward factor investing begins with a shift away from expensive active management and toward low-cost indexed strategies. But most indexed funds, especially those with the lowest fees, are providing some form of market-capitalization-weighted exposure to an index, which essentially means buying more of the most expensive underlying securities.
The cap-weighted conundrum has been addressed with gusto since the financial crisis with various forms of smart-beta strategies that re-weight broad market indexes based on criteria other than a stock's market cap. Factor-based investing goes a step beyond smart beta because it not only measures the sources of performance and risk in existing portfolios, it allows for the development of ETFs that concentrate and combine those attributes to allow for more targeted asset allocation.
"Factors like value versus growth and large cap versus small cap have been a big driver of investment returns for a long time, but the new technology is now allowing investors to better understand how factors work in their portfolios," said Paul Kim, head of ETF strategy at
Principal Financial Group.Factor analysis can be applied to any fund, whether it is a factor-focused strategy, an actively managed fund or an index fund. The idea is to illustrate what factors are dominating a strategy and therefore driving risk and returns. Advances in this space have resulted in a flood of factor analysis tools that help advisers better understand factor investing by illustrating which among about a half-dozen attributes dominate various strategies.
BlackRock's iShares, for example, has The Factor Box, which weighs the value, size, momentum, quality, dividend yield and volatility attributes of a fund against a benchmark.
"Factors are fundamental investment tenets that have long been used, but what's new, with improvements in data and technology, is that we can now access these attributes at a far lower cost," said Holly Framsted, U.S. head of smart beta at BlackRock.
'Factor DNA'
At Invesco, the Factor eXposure Tool measures factor exposures of any fund, producing a basic "factor DNA." Nick Kalivas, senior equity ETF strategist at Invesco, said advisers are using factor strategies to better tailor client portfolios.
"A lot of advisers are looking to build portfolios that meet the specific needs of their clients," he said. "Maybe they want to get more aggressive or less aggressive, or they want lower volatility or dividends for quality. A lot of advisers are looking to single factors to finish off or tweak a portfolio."
Factor Fast Facts
Definition: Securities that are undervalued relative to the market
Some ways it's calculated: The company's book value, price-to-book ratio, sales, earnings, cash earnings, profit, dividends or cash flow
Definition: Companies with high-quality metrics, including strong earnings and low debt
Some ways it's calculated: Stability of the company's earnings and dividend growth, strong balance sheet or financial leverage
Low volatility
Definition: Reduced portfolio volatility relative to the broad market
Some ways it's calculated: Standard deviation or market beta
Definition: Securities' strong recent performance
Some ways it's calculated: Relative return or alpha
Definition: Seeking excess returns by focusing on smaller companies
How it's calculated: The company's market capitalization
Definition: History of above-average dividend yield
How it's calculated: The company's dividend yield
Sources: ETF.com, MSCI Index Research, Vanguard
The Vanguard Group, which has a factor analysis tool designed specifically for financial advisers, goes the extra mile by calculating factor exposures in a fund or portfolio and then listing lower-cost alternatives that have the same factor levels.
"This is the next silver bullet in portfolio construction," said Evan Wolf, head of ETF portfolio analytics in Vanguard's Financial Advisor Services division. "We believe factors can be a great part of the tool kit and can help advisers to continue to build better portfolios."
Like most factor-investing wonks, Mr. Wolf considers it an extension of the traditional nine style boxes popularized by Morningstar, which highlight growth compared to value and large compared to small companies. Growth, value and size are among the common factors used in factor investing, but the list usually also includes attributes such as dividend yield, momentum and volatility.
"In a basic nine box, it shows something like a fund's strong value tilt, but not a deeper factor analysis," Mr. Wolf said.
That deeper factor analysis, now readily available for free at a host of asset managers, is something that can be easily applied at the asset allocation level for clients.
Where factor funds are most like actively managed funds is with regard to the underlying characteristics of the factors. While academics have identified hundreds of potential factors, the asset management universe has homed in on about six. But, as the proliferation of factor funds suggests, the secret sauce is in how each quant strategy defines the factors.
"There are lots of different ways to define a factor, which is why we will continue to see new products," said Jonathan Belanger, chief technology officer at AlphaCore Wealth Advisory. "When we talk about value, I might be talking about a price-to-book ratio and you might be talking about cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings."
With that in mind, even if advisers know what attributes they're looking for, factor-based investing can become as challenging as picking the right active manager.
"The due diligence means looking through to what guides the process, and you should be applying the same level of due diligence you would apply to an active manager," said Ben Johnson, analyst at Morningstar.
While there is no disputing factors as sources of risk and return, the advisory space is still finding its footing when it comes to their application in portfolios.
"Three years ago, we were explaining to advisers what a screen for quality meant, and now they're starting to think more creatively about how they can be used in a client's portfolio," Ms. Framsted said. "Most advisers now understand that factors are already part of what they're buying."
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The company describes the vehicle, which looks like a tiny version of the iconic Wienermobile, as "the first unmanned hot dog-carrying aircraft designed for remote location delivery."
The drone will deliver one hot dog -- ONE! -- by dropping it from the aircraft's belly.
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The Never-Ending Pivot: Where Next For Online Journalism?
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Recent job losses at BuzzFeed drive home just how perilous the media industry has become. Is there a future for high-quality online news in a landscape dominated by tech giants?
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In 2008, after one of the early rounds of what now seems like essentially constant job shedding by (then) Fairfax Media, I was asked by my editor at New Matilda to write about the implications for Australian democracy of Fairfax’s decline.
As a cub reporter for a young and energetic digital news site, I was bullish. The old business models were certainly breaking down, I thought, but this didn’t mean that journalism was doomed.
While I agreed that it was regrettable that grand old mastheads were losing specialist reporters, surely no one would miss the acres of newsprint devoted to real estate advertisements or luxury four-wheel drives. In the meantime, new business models and new talent were emerging, and they would carry the flame. Nimble online operations would build their own well-staffed newsrooms, creating genuine journals of record that would cover national events, break stories and fulfil the time-honoured role of holding the powerful to account.
Boy, was I wrong.
What happened instead was wholesale job destruction. According to Census data compiled by myself and Margaret Simons at Monash University, there were 6,306 print journalists working in Australia in 2006. By 2016 there were just 3,827.
That number has since fallen further, of course, with multiple further rounds of job cuts in the now-vanished Fairfax, as well as at regional newspapers and in the ABC. Numbers of online journalists have grown, but not by nearly enough to make up the difference. All told, at least 3,500 journalists have lost their jobs in Australia in a decade – a decline of approximately one third.
Yes, there are some green shoots, notably the success of the Guardian’s Australian operations, which have hired around 55 full time journalists and are reportedly breaking even in revenue terms. But aside from the Guardian, most digital news outlets are small and lean affairs, numbering perhaps a dozen staff including editors each. Crikey, the New Daily, Junkee and New Matilda work hard and often cover stories that the majors won’t touch – but they are small, vulnerable to defamation suits, and their ability to exert democratic scrutiny is limited.
In this context, the recent announcement that John B. Fairfax, scion of the family fortune, is investing in Crikey is particularly interesting. The new funding has allowed Crikey to advertise a significant number of new investigative positions. In the US, the benefaction of billionaires has been vital in keeping afloat famous mastheads like the New York Times (Carlos Slim) and Washington Post (Jeff Bezos). In Australia, there hasn’t been quite the same interest, Rupert Murdoch notwithstanding – most observers were relieved when Gina Rinehart abandoned her stake in Network 10.
Which brings us to BuzzFeed, in the news last week after massive job cuts worldwide. The Australian branch of the US shareable content phenomenon was small, with under 20 journalists and editors. But in its short life, it has already punched well above its weight, breaking important stories and attracting significant readership.
You always felt that if any company could make money out of making content on the internet, BuzzFeed would. This is the site that seemed to define an era. BuzzFeed embodies virality; the site’s undeniably fun approach to news reporting exemplifies a Millennial attitude that is equal parts committed, neurotic and irreverent. BuzzFeed brought us that dress; it also doggedly pursued Coalition employment minister Michaelia Cash for her role in tipping off the media about a police raid on the Australian Workers Union.
You always felt that if any company could make money out of making content on the internet, BuzzFeed would.
In Australia, BuzzFeed built one of the most vigorous of the new digital newsrooms, hiring a team of talented young newshounds. Some of them, like Josh Taylor, were already known as quality reporters; others, like Alice Workman, Lane Sainty and Gina Rushton, have become genuine stars, delivering scoops and changing the political debate.
In the process, BuzzFeed Australia seemed to show that there might be a vibrant future for digital newsrooms in this country. While the ABC looked over its shoulder at a vengeful government and Fairfax was gobbled up by Nine, BuzzFeed demonstrated that for all the trending quizzes and meme-worthy listicles, what makes for important journalism is sound editorial judgment and good old fashioned hard work.
Now all that is in jeopardy, with the American parent spilling all positions last week, with just a handful of journalists to be re-hired. The redundancies were part of a global retrenchment by the US parent company, which has seen around 250 jobs shed across the company. When I spoke to BuzzFeed staff recently, it was unclear who would stay (as of this writing, some departures and retentions have been made public, but not all). Editor Marni Cordell has been given the unenviable task of covering a federal election without most of the newsroom she hired and developed.
The BuzzFeed job cuts are especially discouraging for those worried about the health of our public sphere, battered by the onslaught of fake news and the dominance of oligopolistic US tech giants. BuzzFeed provided at least a sliver of hope that pure-play web content operations could eventually grow a meaningful workforce of journalists.
Whether or not journalism can discover new business models in the 21st century is awfully important. Our democratic public sphere depends on journalism to hold powerful corporations and governments to account. A future in which our access to information is dominated by a handful of tech giants will be poorly informed, less equal, and less free.
A future in which our access to information is dominated by a handful of tech giants will be poorly informed, less equal, and less free.
And yet our politicians and policymakers seem entirely unconcerned about what is happening to our mediascape. Facebook and Google have established a duopoly on Australian internet content (the technical term is ‘reach’) that makes leftist anxieties about Rupert Murdoch look trivial. The complacency of local regulators has allowed the tech giants to devour essentially the entire online advertising cake, leaving just crumbs for Australian publishers.
The dominance of the platforms means local outlets are essentially at their mercy when it comes to the sharing of their content. Facebook’s now-notorious ‘pivot to video’ of 2016 is the perfect example. The pivot – now known to be based on fake figures cooked up by Facebook – was supposed to deliver more revenue to content providers. They duly invested heavily in video production, only to see the rug pulled out from under them when Zuckerberg changed the algorithm again in 2018.
The 2018 News Feed algorithm tweak put a huge dent in the clicks of publishers relying on Facebook sharing to find readers, and therefore advertisers. It is the main reason for the recent carnage at BuzzFeed and other web sharers. But it merely underlines the root cause of the problem, which is that our democracy has allowed the main information platform of ordinary citizens to fall under the control of a single, rather unethical individual. As US media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan is fond of saying, ‘the problem with Facebook is Facebook.’
As a result, and as the BuzzFeed layoffs show, there appears to be no viable future for online journalism based on advertising revenue alone. As Farhad Manjoo wrote in the New York Times, ‘collectively the blood bath points to the same underlying market pathology: the inability of the digital advertising business to make much meaningful room for anyone but monopolistic tech giants.’ Manjoo called it a ‘democratic emergency’.
So what’s left? The only plausible future for web journalism appears to be the subscription model, in which news consumers pay a monthly fee for the privilege of browsing. Will this be enough?
In some niches, and for some communities, it might be. Community radio in Australia can boast 40 years of listener funding; stations like 3RRR in Melbourne, 4ZZZ in Brisbane and 2SER in Sydney have built genuine communities of interest devoted to music and intelligent talk radio. Regional newspapers also retain loyal (if declining) readerships in many smaller cities, although their newsrooms too have been decimated.
There appears to be no viable future for online journalism based on advertising revenue alone. So what’s left?
And subscription models can boast some successes in terms of national news coverage too. The Nine newspapers do pull in modest subscription incomes, and the Guardian’s revenue is now thought to be majority subscriptions. But in the broader scheme of a multibillion-dollar industry, subscription revenue is essentially a niche strategy.
The problem is that there are are certain things that niche publication with a small subscription base simply can’t do. While they might employ a star investigator and a string of freelance columnists, they are much less likely to support a team of investigative journalists with the time and resources to dig deep. They almost certainly won’t fund foreign bureaus in overseas capitals, or a presence in the farther flung regions of Australia. They probably won’t even employ full time journalists to cover state governments, let alone metro city councils.
The biggest deficit of all is in specialist reporters with a focus on a particular policy area, whether it be defence, or climate science, or industrial relations. The news trade used to call such assignments ‘beats’ or ‘rounds’, and they typically went to experienced journalists for a number of years, allowing them to build up deep networks and multiple sources. Policy journalism is poorly served by generalists trying to cover complex issues on the fly; this is why Canberra political journalists struggle when asked to report on renewable energy or a Royal Commission on aged care. This stuff is boring, but vital: we need people who are employed to report on what our spy agencies are getting up to, or the roll out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, or questionable mining deals by a smaller state government.
Such news deficits do matter. Without them, we simply won’t know. This doesn’t bode well for the health of our public sphere, or our democracy.
Dr Ben Eltham is a Lecturer at Monash University’s School of Media, Film and Journalism, and the National Affairs Correspondent at New Matilda.
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Supreme Court unanimously rejects appeal by Denis Casey
Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 07:40 Updated: Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 11:33
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Former Irish Life & Permanent chief executive Denis Casey, who has served a sentence of two years and nine months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to defraud. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Former Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) chief executive Denis Casey has lost his appeal over his conviction for his role in a multibillion-euro conspiracy to deceive people about the true financial state of Anglo Irish Bank in 2008.
A five-judge Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected the appeal by Mr Casey, who has served a sentence of two years and nine months’ imprisonment imposed in July 2016 after he was found guilty of a conspiracy to defraud.
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court had found Mr Casey conspired with Anglo’s John Bowe and Willie McAteer to engage in transactions between Anglo and IL&P aimed at fooling people into thinking Anglo had received an extra €7.2 billion in customer deposits.
The appeal centred on whether Mr Casey was entitled to use the roles of the Financial Regulator, the Central Bank and the Department of Finance as a defence in his trial.
‘Green jersey agenda’
Mr Casey argued he authorised the transactions on the basis the regulator was fully aware of them and they were encouraged as part of the “green jersey agenda” involving Irish banks supporting each other during the financial crisis.
Mr Casey said he honestly believed that, in September 2008, Anglo could not have approached IL&P for support without the knowledge of the regulator.
The essence of his case, his counsel agreed during the appeal, was the State could not prosecute or convict Mr Casey for this offence because a State agent had got him “into this mess”.
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That defence of officially-induced error was not permitted go to the jury by the trial judge.
The core legal issue before the Supreme Court was whether or not a defence of officially-induced error is available under Irish law to Mr Casey and, if so, whether, on the evidence, it was open to Mr Casey.
On Thursday, Mr Justice Peter Charleton, giving the court’s judgment, ruled that officially-induced error is available, within certain parameters, in this jurisdiction as an answer to a criminal charge. On the evidence in this case, it was not available to Mr Casey, he ruled.
Officially-induced error is not a justificatory or excusatory defence in criminal law, he outlined. Rather, it amounts to a legal objection to the continuation of the criminal process.
The proof of elements of unfairness leading to a trial judge staying a prosecution must be established by an accused on the balance of probabilities and the applicability of this plea is a matter of law for the trial judge.
In this case, there was nothing in the evidence before the trial judge which would have enabled any plea of officially-induced error to succeed and the trial judge correctly ruled out any mention of such defence before the jury.
Outlining the parameters of the plea of officially-induced error, he said an answer to a criminal charge of officially-induced error is an exception to the rule that ignorance or mistake as to the law cannot excuse criminal conduct.
For officially-induced error to be accepted as a bar to a criminal prosecution, an accused must prove they went in good faith to seek legal advice from the relevant appropriate authority on whether or not a proposed course of conduct was lawful.
The proposal about which legal advice is sought must be specific, describing accurately that conduct which is the subject matter of the later criminal charge, he said.
The relevant official’s advice must also be specific and must amount to “legal advice”, or advice of mixed law and fact, in a manner which clearly and unequivocally authorises the conduct as a matter of law.
The advice must cover the specific situation, must be honestly accepted by the accused and must be such that a reasonable person would be likely to act on it. In the commission of the offence, there must be “no deviation” from the apparently authorised conduct.
To raise the defence, an accused must precisely describe before the trial judge what they did rather than evading responsibility through not admitting conduct, he said.
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Correlation between Personality Traits and Language Learning Strategies among IUS Students.
Title Correlation between Personality Traits and Language Learning Strategies among IUS Students.
Authors Mulalic, A, Obralic, N
Journal Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research
Date Published 2017
ISSN Number ISSN: 2376-760X
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research Volume 4, Issue 5, 2017, pp. 76-84 Available online at www.jallr.com ISSN: 2376-760X * Correspondence: Nudzejma Obralic, Email: nobralic ius.edu.ba © 2017 Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research Correlation between Personality Traits and Language Learning Strategies among IUS Students Nudzejma Obralic * Assistant Professor, International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Almasa Mulalic Assistant Professor, International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Abstract Success in a second language learning and ultimate attainment in target language can be associated with the concept of personality traits. Personality of a learner can impact the overall success in second language learning. Language learning strategies also can impact successful second language acquisition to a great extent. These two trends, although not closely related, when considered in a second language classroom can significantly help students in their endower while learning second language. 70 students from International University of Sarajevo participated in the research. The Five Factor model questionnaire was distributed in order to determine students’ personality traits, which is composed of Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism (Costa & McCrae, 1992), and for language learning strategies we used the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). The results showed that students exhibited very high preferences for social learning strategy. Students’ dominant personality trait was Openness to Experience. The results also showed that there is a significant relationship between the predominant personality traits and language learning strategies of the respondents. Keywords: the Five Factors, SILL, Personality traits, language learning strategies, language acquisition INTRODUCTION In the past two decades in the field of language learning and teaching, there was a shift from teacher-centered classroom to student-centered one. This trend provided an opportunity to the students to become more independent learners and at the same time self-governed. The focus was more on learner centered approach in language teaching (Reiss, 1987; Wenden, 1991; Tamada, 1996). Another issue that was taken into consideration when it comes to successful second language learning was language learning strategies and styles and to what extent they influence successful acquisition of a second language. Oxford (1990) is the most prominent researcher and very often cited Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017, 4(5) 77 in literature related to language learning strategies. She argued that while considering the processes through which students are going while acquiring the language, researchers have to pay attention to the process of learning rather than the product. Beside teaching approaches, learning styles and strategies another important factor in SLA is personality traits of a language learner. According to Chamorro-Premuzic and Furnham (2005) personality traits of an individual are: …. a very general mental capacity that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience…. it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings- ‘catching on’ ‘making sense’ of things, or ‘figuring out’ what to do…. (p. 40). When it comes to personality traits it has got prominent attention among language learning specialists. It has been determined through numerous researches that there is a great variability among learners when it comes to personality factors. Because of this variability researchers focused their attention to this issue in order to help students pursue their goals in second language acquisition. Personality traits have special characteristics among individuals that usually could be traced to an unchanged pattern of traits. Researchers have focused their attention on anxiety, locus of control, achievement orientation, intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, social competence etc. Among the most prominent and very often used instrument to measure personality traits is Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Myers, McCaulley, Quenk, & Hammer, 1988). Costa and McCrea’s (1992). Five Factor model of personality is also very prominent and often used in language acquisition field. The model includes five factors that mark person’s personality, namely they are: Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. The research on personality traits and language learning strategies has not been popular and not much researched in the field. There are a number of researchers who called on a wider research in this field because of its importance and potential contribution in the language studies (Bongearts, Planken & Schils, 1995; Dorney, 2009, 2010, Moyer, A. 1999, Moyer, M. 2007). Current research main aim is to determine personality traits among IUS students as well as the preferences towards language learning strategies. Besides, the researchers’ intention was to determine to what extent personality traits and language learning strategies correlate between each other. The first part of the research will present statement of the problem and why the research was instigated. Statistical analysis will be presented through descriptive statistics, the Pearson product-moment correlation, and t-test for the differences among male and female students in regards to personality factors and language learning strategies. Statement of the problem The study investigated the concept of personality traits and preferred learning strategies among IUS students. The most important concern was to determine how Correlation between Personality Traits and Language Learning Strategies 78 these two variables correlate and to what extent they influence language learning. Researchers posed the following questions: What are the dominant personality traits of the respondents? What are preferred learning strategies of the students while learning a second language? What is the predominant personality trait according to the gender differences? What are the predominant learning strategies of the students according to the gender? Is there a significant correlation between predominant personality trait and the most preferred language learning strategy employed by the respondents? METHOD The study was conducted among 70 students at the International University of Sarajevo attending freshman courses ENG111 and MAN111. The particular study took place in the fall semester school year 2015-2016. The researcher used two set of questionnaires; Big Five and SILL. Quantitative and descriptive study was employed in this research. Instruments Strategies Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) Researchers used Oxfords, 1990 The Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL version 7.0 for ESL/EFL learners, 50 items). This is a self-report questionnaire, on which students marked their choices based on how they perceive themselves while learning a language. In this way, we were able to determine how often students use language learning strategies. The SILL questionnaire has been widely used as a key instrument in many studies. Those studies have reported reliability coefficients for the SILL ranging from .85 to .98. This means that the questionnaire is a trustworthy measure for determining students’ reported language learning strategy use (Bremner & Narayan, 1988; Oxford & Burry-Stock, 1995; Park, 1997; Sheorey, 1999; Wharton, 2000). In the SILL, language learning strategies are grouped into six categories for assessment: Memory strategies for storing and retrieving information, Cognitive strategies for understanding and producing the language, Compensation strategies for overcoming limitations in language learning, Meta-cognitive strategies for planning and monitoring learning, Affective strategies for controlling emotions, motivation, and Social strategies for cooperating with others in language learning. Five Factor Model Five Factor Model was the second questionnaire used in this study. Five Factor model is composed of Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism (Costa & McCrae, 1992). Extroversion is related to the people who like to be engaged with the external world, usually very friendly and easy going. It is the personality trait according to which people look for the fulfillment from sources outside the self or in community. High scorers are usually associated with being social while low scorers have a preference towards working on their projects alone. Agreeableness personality trait refers to modesty, compassion, tender-mindedness and honesty. It reflects an individual who adjust their behavior to suit others. High scorers are typically Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017, 4(5) 79 polite and they like people. Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being honest and hardworking. People who possess this personality trait are usually punctual and reliable at work. They prefer planned and structured behavior to spontaneity and creativity. High scorers tend to follow rules and prefer clean homes. Low scorers may be messy and cheat others. Neuroticism is the personality trait of being emotional. Neurotic people express instability and they are very impulsive. They cannot handle stress, they usually have fear. Openness to Experience is the personality trait of seeking new experience and intellectual pursuits. High scores may day dream a lot. Low scorers may be very down to earth. RESULTS The first research question was to define the dominant personality traits of the respondents? In order to determine personality factors of the students the following were considered Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness. According to the table 1. bellow and the mean value (M=23,69) students exhibited preferences of personality trait for Openness to Experience. Agreeableness (M=21, 53) and Conscientiousness (M=21, 34) were the next ranked personality trait among students. Extroversion (M=18, 50) and Neuroticism (M=18, 87) had the lowest mean. Table 1. One-Sample Statistics N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean Extroversion 70 18,50 2,477 ,296 Agreeableness 70 21,53 3,124 ,373 Conscientiousness 70 21,34 2,675 ,320 Neuroticism 70 18,87 2,983 ,356 Openness to experience 70 23,69 3,295 ,394 Besides investigating the personality trait, the researchers tend to investigate the preferred learning strategies of the students when learning the language? According to the table below the most preferred leaning strategies among students was Cognitive (M=29, 21) learning strategy. Memory (M=19, 97) learning strategy was the second ranked learning strategy among students, followed with Metacognitive (M=18, 90) learning strategies. The least preferred learning strategy was Compensation (M=12, 56) learning strategy, followed with Social (M=12, 37) strategy. Table 2. One-Sample Statistics N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean Memory 70 19,97 3,757 ,449 Cognitive 70 29,21 4,800 ,574 Compensation 70 12,56 2,512 ,300 Metacognitive 70 18,90 4,076 ,487 Effective 70 14,66 3,116 ,372 Social 70 12,37 3,018 ,361 Correlation between Personality Traits and Language Learning Strategies 80 The second research question was to find if there is any difference between male and female students regarding personality traits? According to table 3 below, the mean value implies that there is statistically significant difference between male and female students only on the Openness personality trait. All other personality traits did not differ significantly between male and female students. It can be concluded that because female students are more open they differ on the Openness personality from their male counterparts. Table 3. Independent Samples Test Levene's Test for Equality of Variances t-test for Equality of Means F Sig. t df Sig. (2- tailed) Mean Differen ce Std. Error Differ ence 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference Lowe r Uppe r Extroversion Equal variances assumed 2,727 ,103 ,652 68 ,517 ,404 ,621 -,834 1,643 Equal variances not assumed ,695 59,44 3 ,490 ,404 ,582 -,760 1,569 Agreeablenes s Equal variances assumed 2,525 ,117 ,860 68 ,393 ,671 ,781 -,887 2,229 Equal variances not assumed ,965 65,94 8 ,338 ,671 ,696 -,718 2,060 Conscientious ness Equal variances assumed 5,313 ,024 1,35 4 68 ,180 ,898 ,663 -,426 2,221 Equal variances not assumed 1,56 6 67,86 2 ,122 ,898 ,573 -,246 2,042 Neuroticism Equal variances assumed 5,124 ,027 - 1,85 4 68 ,068 -1,356 ,731 - 2,815 ,104 Equal variances not assumed - 1,69 6 38,43 2 ,098 -1,356 ,799 - 2,973 ,262 Openness to experience Equal variances assumed 1,903 ,172 3,03 1 68 ,003 2,356 ,777 ,805 3,906 Equal variances not assumed 3,30 6 62,65 1 ,002 2,356 ,712 ,932 3,779 Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017, 4(5) 81 Table 4. Group Statistics gender N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean Extroversion female 25 18,76 2,127 ,425 male 45 18,36 2,664 ,397 Agreeableness female 25 21,96 2,300 ,460 male 45 21,29 3,501 ,522 Conscientiousness female 25 21,92 1,754 ,351 male 45 21,02 3,041 ,453 Neuroticism female 25 18,00 3,512 ,702 male 45 19,36 2,560 ,382 Openness female 25 25,20 2,500 ,500 male 45 22,84 3,404 ,507 The next research question was to find if there is any difference between male and female students when it comes to their preferences towards language learning strategies? The results indicated that there was no statistically significant difference between male and female students in their strategy use. There was only slight, but not significant difference, between male and female students in metacognitive strategy use. Female students used metacognitive strategy more than male students (for Female students M = 19, 04 and for Male students M = 17, 82). Table 5. Group Statistics gender N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean memory female 25 20,36 3,463 ,693 male 45 19,76 3,932 ,586 Cognitive female 25 29,00 4,975 ,995 male 45 29,33 4,753 ,709 compensation female 25 12,68 2,780 ,556 male 45 12,49 2,380 ,355 metacognitive female 25 19,04 4,036 ,807 male 45 18,82 4,141 ,617 effective female 25 14,40 2,309 ,462 male 45 14,80 3,501 ,522 social female 25 12,12 2,818 ,564 male 45 12,51 3,145 ,469 The third research question investigated if there is a significant correlation between predominant personality trait and the most preferred language learning strategy employed by the respondents? According to the table below results show that there is a strong correlation between personality traits and language learning strategies at the 0.01 level (2 tailed) and at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). The strongest correlation is between Extroversion and all the strategies (Memory, Cognitive, Compensation, Metacognitive, Effective, and Social) employed by students. The strong correlation also was found between Agreeableness and Effective learning strategy. The strong correlation has also been found between Consciousness and all the learning strategies except Metacognitive and Social strategy. The weakest correlation was found between Neuroticism and all the Correlation between Personality Traits and Language Learning Strategies 82 language learning strategies except Effective learning strategy where correlation was significant (S=, 293). The weak correlation was also found between Openness and language learning strategies except Compensation and Effective learning strategies. Overall results showed that there is correlation between personality traits and strategy use in the language classroom. Having this in mind, it has to be stated that second language instructors should pay more attention to their students’ personality traits and their success or failure to acquire second language. Table 6. Correlations Memory Cognitive Compensation Metacognitive Effective Social Extroversion Pearson Correlation ,269* ,437** ,241* ,438** ,282* ,289* Sig. (2-tailed) ,024 ,000 ,044,015 ,000 ,018 N 70 70 70 70 70 70 Agreeableness Pearson Correlation ,203 ,074 ,075 ,079 ,370** ,040 Sig. (2-tailed) ,093 ,540 ,539,740 ,514 ,002 N 70 70 70 70 70 70 Conscientiousness Pearson Correlation ,354** ,253* ,444** ,212 ,385** ,147 Sig. (2-tailed) ,003 ,035 ,000,223 ,078 ,001 N 70 70 70 70 70 70 Neuroticims Pearson Correlation ,076 ,116 ,161 ,018 ,293* ,018 Sig. (2-tailed) ,532 ,338 ,184,881 ,882 ,014 N 70 70 70 70 70 70 Openness to experience Pearson Correlation ,214 ,163 ,272* ,186 ,245* ,047 Sig. (2-tailed) ,076 ,178 ,023,700 ,122 ,041 N 70 70 70 70 70 70 N 70 70 70 70 70 70 **. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2 tailed). *. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). DISCUSSION In the current research from the date presented above it can be concluded that students exhibited preferences of personality trait for Openness to Experiences. Agreeableness and Consciousness were the next ranked personality trait. This is in agreement with the previous research done on this topic (Kang, 2012). Extroversion (M=18, 50) and Neuroticism (M=18, 87) had the lowest mean, which means that students were not extroverts and they did not feel neurotic while learning the language. The results of SILL showed that the most preferred leaning strategies among students was Cognitive (M=29, 21) learning strategy. Memory (M=19, 97) learning strategy was the second ranked learning strategy among students, followed with Metacognitive (M=18, 90) learning strategies. The least preferred learning strategy was Compensation Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017, 4(5) 83 (M=12, 56) learning strategy, followed with Social (M=12, 37) strategy. Current research findings do not correspond with the results of the previous research done on the similar topic. Su’s (2005) results showed that students exhibited preferences for social strategy. She investigated Taiwanese vocational college students majoring in Applied Foreign Language. Wharton (2000) also conducted study among University students in Singapore and found that they preferred social learning strategy. However, Politzer (1983) in her study found that her students preferred memorization learning strategy. This is more in line with the results from the current research. From this it can be claimed that student’s learning strategies have changed, most probably with the current changes and trends in technology and approach to education. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION The main objective of this study was to determine the level of the Five Factors among IUS students, and to find out whether there is any relationship between personality traits and language learning strategies. The analysis confirmed strong correlation between personality traits and language learning strategies. The personality factor that has the most powerful modifying personality in this research is Openness to Experience. This is most probably due to its relationship with intellectual functionality and huge dependence on genetic factors. Being aware of what works for a student in successful language learning may play decisive role towards foreign language success. It also can increase self-confidence and motivation in students. Personality traits of the students should be taken into consideration when planning foreign language classes as it can add an extra value and guidance in successful language learning. Using this information, professional course developers will be able to bring important issues in language learning closer to the students, so that they will be able to achieve best learning results. Making students aware about their personality trait and the type of strategy they employ while learning the language may also increase their interests and motivation. Once made aware about these different issues students will be able to explain their personality traits so that they will be empowered to learning in a variety of learning situations. Since Cognitive strategy was the highest ranked strategy in the current research context, students should have been given an opportunity to approach their learning tasks from this perspective. Language instructors should take into consideration the research results and try to plan and structure their classes so that they reflect students’ preferences. REFERENCES Bongaerts, T., Planken, B. & Schils, E. (1995). Can late learners attain a native accent in a foreign language? A test of the critical period hypothesis. In D. Singleton & Z. Lengyel (Eds), The age factor in second language acquisition (30– 50.). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 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"Apocalypse Rising"
Written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by James L. Conway
"I hate prototypes." —O'Brien
Since I originally wrote this review, I've had some minor changes of opinion and now rate the episode at three stars. To see the reasons for this change, find the capsule review in the Fifth Season Recap. Below is the orignial review of the episode, which at the time I rated at 2 1/2 stars.
Nutshell: Solid entertainment and often fun, but hardly challenging. A good 60 minute diversion but not what I was hoping for.
In the wake of Odo's discovery in "Broken Link" that Gowron is a Changeling impostor, Starfleet Command orders Sisko to embark on a dangerous mission—to go undercover to the Klingon homeworld and expose Gowron as a shapeshifter. Bashir alters Sisko, Odo, and O'Brien to look like Klingons, and Worf naturally assumes the role of training them in Klingon behavior. Gul Dukat provides the transportation to Kronos in his stolen Bird of Prey.
"Apocalypse Rising" is a solidly entertaining stand-alone episode that has been skillfully assembled. It has a slick polish and it works for a 60 minute viewing. At the same time it's hardly challenging material in terms of storytelling—it doesn't have very high aspirations, and it doesn't have much in terms of sweeping changes or arc developments.
For a DS9 season premiere (and for an episode with such an imposing title), "Apocalypse Rising" sure plays it safe. This is probably the safest season premiere DS9 has ever done. When compared with "Way of the Warrior" of last year, "The Search, Part I" of the year before, or "The Homecoming" of the year before that, "Apocalypse Rising" can't come close to recapturing the fresh and daring sense that those shows had. The reason for this is that those premieres offered something new into the DS9 equation, whether it was startling Bajoran political developments, the discovery of the Founders, or the sudden movements of the Klingons.
"Apocalypse Rising," on the other hand, offers nothing new; it simply makes use of the existing elements and puts them into a relatively standard plot. That isn't inherently bad, but considering how long the Dominion and Klingon plot lines have been intertwined and how many shows they've been seeming to build up to a major event, I was expecting a major event. Well, I didn't get my major event; instead I got an acceptable plot-driven episode that had some reasonable character moments.
One interesting character point is Odo's situation. By this point, it's clear that Odo will not be changed back to a shapeshifter; the Dominion's judgment on him is obviously not going to be reversed by the writers. This is good. It adds a little extra angst to his character. Through most of the episode, Odo silently broods over what he has lost. He does find comfort in the human behaviors of eating and drinking; an early scene features a mildly intoxicated Odo who, for once, has come to Quark's to buy a drink. Unfortunately, he's doing it to drown his sorrows. I will maintain that turning Odo human is a very good thing for further character building; the creators, however, must realize that this installment is merely one of what should be many shows to explain how Odo copes with his problem and his new identity. This issue is by no means something that can go away after only one examination. There must be follow-ups—and such follow-ups I look forward to seeing.
Also characteristically, Marc Alaimo turns in another classic Gul Dukat portrayal. Scenes in which Dukat mocks Sisko's masquerading crew prove amusing. And as Sisko's ticket for safe passage through Klingon space, Dukat demonstrates a no-nonsense take-no-prisoners attitude and methodology. When he encounters another Klingon ship that inquires why he is wandering through the particular area of space, something goes wrong with his communications holo-projector. Dukat's solution: destroy the Klingons. The swiftness with which he makes his decision even prompted a double-take from me. Pretty cold... I like it.
As for the sequences where Worf attempts to "train" Sisko and the others to act like Klingons: They bordered on the obvious and were on the silly side, but I liked them anyway. (Hey, it's Klingon comedy.) There were some decent one-liners in there—O'Brien's "It's not easy being funny wearing these teeth" was among them.
Aside from the character tidbits, "Apocalypse Rising" is fundamentally plot-driven. Most of the screen time is devoted to advancing the plot or explaining how the crew intends to execute its plan. Specifically, they attend a bat'leth tournament which Gowron is to attend. The plan: to subject the Gowron Changeling to a specific radiation field that will make him revert to a liquid. Of course, to make things more interesting, the field must simultaneously emanate from four different locations in the room with four different devices that have been set up ahead of time.
The tournament is held in a hall filled with rudely lively characters. And while it's kind of fun watching drunken Klingons beat on one another and tell stories, it sure doesn't add much to the grand scheme of things. In short: We've seen all this before, so all that becomes important are the plot manipulations.
And these plot manipulations are, in fact, nicely done on the basis of this show alone. The story is structured with an even hand, having no scenes that feel out of place or distracting subplots to interrupt the main story. Conway's direction is good, and he even has a few memorable camera angles.
When General Martok (J.G. Hertzler) shows up at the tournament and recognizes Captain Sisko, he throws Sisko and his crew in a cell. Sisko attempts to reason with Martok and is successful; Martok agrees to let them out if they will kill the Gowron Changeling. Worf challenges Gowron to a battle to the death, and under details I'm not going into here, the show throws the revelation/twist on us when Odo realizes that not Gowron but Martok is the Changeling infiltrator, who is shot about 53 times after he's found out.
Despite the skillful execution over these plot events, the problem is that when the show is over it doesn't really have any lasting impact. Why? Because it maintains the Trekkian Status Quo—that pesky thing that dictates situations are more likely to remain the same than to change in the process of one episode. By finding and defeating this one Changeling, the series lends itself no new impetuses for future development of this storyline. I'm not saying that this outcome means nothing to the series, but if the Changeling had been Gowron and not just some thought implanted by the Founders in Odo's mind (another cleverly subversive act of the Founders that by itself is interesting) then the show would've really mattered. Consider: the Klingon Empire's leader is killed after he turns out to be a spy. That has possibilities. Instead, they kill Martok, a relatively unimportant character whom we've seen twice.
For that matter, I would've liked to know when exactly Martok was replaced (it was presumably before "Way of the Warrior") or how he had so much direct influence over Gowron. How could Gowron not detect Martok's change in behavior when Odo could pick him out based on a few things he said? Such details are not extremely important to the plot as it stands, I suppose, but the possibilities could've lent themselves to another powerful analysis of paranoia and mistrust like "Homefront." It was not to be.
In short, "Apocalypse Rising" is a fun, nicely assembled plot that adds up to not a whole hell of a lot. For a season premiere it's surprisingly ordinary. It's a decent ride, but tomorrow you might forget it happened.
Previous episode: Broken Link
Next episode: The Ship
Wiegraffolles
Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 11:55am (UTC -5)
It also would have been interesting if Martok was the founder, but Gowron had been killed by mistake as well, leaving the Klingons without a strong leadership and giving Worf some serious problems to think about.
Sat, Aug 8, 2009, 5:24pm (UTC -5)
Wouldn't Sisko having attended the Academy with a Benzanite contradict the comment in Coming Of Age where that Benzanite character would have been the first of his race in Starfleet?
Wilbur
Ah, nice catch on the Benzanite, Jay! I noticed that, too. It is a minor issue, but I wonder how a mistake like that could have been made? We only ever had two episodes featuring Benzanites, and the writer must have been relatively familiar with those episodes. Otherwise, why make a Benzanite reference at all?
Tue, Aug 25, 2009, 8:54pm (UTC -5)
The TNG aliens were actually Benzites, not Benzenites, but it seems clear from the breathing tubes reference that the writers were thinking about Benzites when they wrote it.
Even though the first Benzite shown in TNG was supposedly the first one in the academy, each subsequent Benzite seems to have graduated earlier than the one before.
Watching this episode I realized how much I missed those season openers that would just put you right into the action from the very first scene ("The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", "Redemption II", "Scorpion, Part II", etc.). There was something envigorating about waiting all summer with excitement for the new season, and then sensing your excitement double as the episode started up right where the cliff-hanger left off. Deep Space Nine's season openers are all great episodes, but they do take a little longer to get going. Just a thought.
That being said, I knew long before I started watching DS9 that Martok was a Changeling (damn you, Memory Alpha!) and when I was watching "The Way of the Warrior" I thought it was blatantly obvious that he was the impostor. So I was surprised to find out that it was a last-minute decision made by Ron Moore to avoid upsetting TNG fans & give the episode a surprise ending.
One thing's for sure, I can't imagine watching the series at the pace they originally aried (e.g. one season per year). Though I guess that was part of its appeal. Oh well!
Elliot Wilson
Sat, Feb 6, 2010, 12:24pm (UTC -5)
Hey, you didn't comment on Sisko's fight with the Klingons! What, didn't like it? I thought it was perfect. Seeing Sisko give a full punch to the Klingon boasting about killing his friend with an excuse of "getting more bloodwine" is too good to pass up in a review!
Sun, Feb 7, 2010, 9:28pm (UTC -5)
P.S. With regard to Dax not coming along on the mission to Qu'onos, the real reason is because Terry Farrell was allergic to the Klingon make-up. Of course it would have been nice to have an on-screen explanation (simply saying Dax was recently wounded and had to recuperate would have been satisfactory), but I think it's easily forgivable.
Brandon Carrauthers
Mon, Apr 19, 2010, 3:37pm (UTC -5)
I saw this episode when I was 11 years old.
Jeff O'Connor
And I was nine. And it was glorious.
Nick M
Jammer,
I am really shocked at the error you made in your review. You said the DS9 crew had to infiltrate a " bat'leth tournament" Gowron was going to be at.
No. No. No.
It was induction into the Order of the Bat'leth, the highest award for bravery a Klingon can receive!
Nic, thanks for that info, I kept thinking, "With her insight into Kilingons, Dax should be on this mission!"
Thu, Mar 1, 2012, 3:41pm (UTC -5)
The scene of the damaged runabout coming back to DS9 here looks like the exact same shot of the damaged runabout returning to DS9 just two episodes earlier in "Body Parts".
Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 1:12pm (UTC -5)
Ah, yes. Sisko-as-Klingon - My favorite Sisko scenery chewing of all time.
"Brag all you want! But don't get between ME and the BloodWINE!!!!"
Duge Butler Jr.
I thought that this was a pretty good episode further highlighting the subversiveness of the Dominion in trying to fool the Federation into assasinating the (non-changling) head of the Klingon Empire- doing their dirty work for them. Although I'm not sure if it was a retcon or not but Martok turning out to be the changling infiltrator helps explain his urging Gowron to be more aggressive and to launch their invasion of Cardassia and attacking DS9, ending the Khitomer Accords with the Federation, etc. My only major disappointment with this episode is that revealing Martok to be a changling and eliminating him doesn't really change anything in regards to the Klingon-Cardassia-Federation conflict begun in WOTW. Gowron, while sparing the lives of the DS9 crew, makes clear that he plans to press ahead with the war against the Cardassians/Federation (or at least feigns a certain helplessness in stopping it). Thankfully, that changes a few episodes later but at the (unnecessary) expense of more lives and conflict.
Tue, May 1, 2012, 4:29am (UTC -5)
I felt it was a very solid episode, nice twist at the end, and a good follow up later in the series. The Klingon claptrap is tolerable. Gowron and Martok were both interesting characters.
3 stars from me
Paul York
Fri, Jun 1, 2012, 4:55pm (UTC -5)
O'Brien and Odo make very poor Klingons. Sisko was a great Klingon; he lived up to the part well. I loved this episode -- Klingon and Ferengi episodes are frequently the most entertaining because both species are so over the top.
TMLS
Shame to read that about Terry Farrell... had she been in typical Klingon female armour it could have been quite interesting ;)
Tue, Oct 9, 2012, 5:16pm (UTC -5)
Solid episode, but it is extremely dumb that Sisko is recognized by Martok, but Worf is recognized by neither Martok or Gowron.
Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 11:03pm (UTC -5)
I enjoyed the little scene between Kira and Bashir, where she blames him for being pregnant. Hahaha...
Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 8:07pm (UTC -5)
Forget why Dax was excluded; why were *any* Niners given this mission? Doesn't Starfleet have a spec ops team? And why would Sisko and Dax have to personally report on the situation?Odo was the one with first-hand (dis)information.
Assuming Starfleet has no other Klingon experts, I can see why Worf and Dax might be chosen to go undercover. To accommodate Farrell's allergy, the story could show how her Trill immune system makes surgical disguise impossible.
Of course, surgical disguises have been possible since "The Enterprise Incident." We never learned how future people cope with fluid identities, a problem also sidestepped this season by "A Simple Investigation."
Sat, Sep 14, 2013, 10:01am (UTC -5)
I think a 3 is fair for this. It's an episode that has elements of fun, most Klingon episodes do, as well as getting some serious stuff and Odo development in.
I love O'Brien as a character and seeing him as a Klingon is brilliant.
Fun story episode. One of the few episodes I remember well from when I watched this show as a kid.
Wed, Jan 1, 2014, 1:26pm (UTC -5)
Would be interesting to get a look at Lt. Vylyxpran and see what he looks like and how he performs his duties with 8-18 children in various stages of budding off of him.
Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 7:17pm (UTC -5)
Pretty solid episode through and through. Nothing stand-out but very respectable. 3 stars here too.
Sun, Jun 8, 2014, 12:54pm (UTC -5)
Wouldn't Worf be the worst person to send on this mission? He's recognized by Klingons everywhere as a "traitor to the empire".
UnknownSample
Mon, Jul 7, 2014, 12:42am (UTC -5)
Yes, sending Worf was the biggest error of the episode. He's a famous Klingon. He's known as the starfleet klingon and the klingon who helped install Gowron as chancellor. Sometimes he had been considered a traitor and other times he was considered an honorable Klingon but he would have been noticed by everyone no matter how much blood wine they had.
I do like that Odo didn't spend too much time mourning his loss. It reminds me of when Troi lost her powers. She went insane the whole episode. Odo kept it together and got back to work pretty quick.
Avery Brooks has a problem overacting. Watch the secede when he's talking to Martok and he says "You think we're right don't you? You think gowrons a changeling TOO". Lol. I'm not sure why the directors didn't tell him stop acting like that
Wed, Aug 6, 2014, 12:35pm (UTC -5)
Doesn't measure up to 'Emissary', 'The Homecoming', 'The Search' or 'The Way of the Warrior'. Kind of a let down, but that should be expected as 'Broken Link' wasn't much of a season closer.
I can't believe they sent Worf. I also can't believe that none of the Klingons recognized him. I always thought Jadzia should have argued to Sisko that Worf would be recognized and gone herself. I now know why thank guys). Too bad, she would have been GLORIOUS in Klingon garb.
Loved the Kira/Bashir exchange.
"KIRA: That's right, it was. But I'd rather blame you!"
Sisko makes a passable Klingon, unlike Odo or Obrien. He can get away with hammy overacting there.
Neat twist at the end, but I kind of saw it coming. It isn't very "DS9" for the mission to go as planned and isn't very "Dominion" for the apparent truth to be the real truth.
Ian G
It's an OK episode but not the best DS9 has to offer. I found it a bit of a let down compared to what was promised by the big reveal at the end of season 4. I also dislike the general regression of the Klingons into rowdy "space Viking" caricatures and this episode does very little to redeem them.
Sat, Feb 7, 2015, 6:21pm (UTC -5)
Captain Sikso makes a great Klingon. Avery Brooks tendency to overact provides a great outlet for that effect. Brooks chews the scenery when he is a Klingon...and it works.
Also, (I know I am nitpicking here), but how does Chief O'Brien automatically know where the Holo-emitter are on a Klingon Bird Of Prey located? He just pops open a panel and JUST KNOWS everything.
Sat, Feb 28, 2015, 6:19pm (UTC -5)
I agree with some of the plotholes that previous posters mentioned - how on earth could the Klingons recognise Sisko but not Worf? Worf the Starfleet Klingon, son of Mogh, killer of Duras and instigator of the Chancellor. They would have spotted him a mile away.
That being said, O-Brien and Odo's horrible Klingon impersonations were a hoot. Odo's "You should have your eyes examined" response to Worf calling him a dung beetle had me on the floor. Sisko makes an incredibly good Klingon; he probably enjoyed having the opportunity to let his hair down, so to speak, and toss people around, something he doesn't get to do in a Starfleet uniform.
Dukat's amusement at their Klingon getup was hilarious too, especially when he said he wanted a picture, or a "holo-image." Like Jammer, I appreciated his "no-prisoners" policy when he blasted the Bird-of-Prey to smithereens - it establishes how Cardassians prefer to make a quick, clean kill, rather than sit around asking questions. We saw this side of them in 'Return to Grace' when Dukat blasted the Groumall with its new Klingon crew, as well as 'Tacking in the Wind' when Garak killed the entire bridge crew on the Breen ship. In each instance there's a non-Cardassian, Federation-affiliated character who goggles on in dismayed disbelief and asks, "Was that really necessary?" Nice touch, with DS9's trademark of making the small things work.
Gorkon
Good episode.
Making Gowron the changeling and killing him would have drawn (justified) criticism of handwaving the Federation-Klingon conflict away. Or Martok would have ascended and continued in the same vein, making the whole episode kind of pointless.
Killing Gowron while Martok was the changeling would be a very interesting ending indeed. It would leave the Klingons without clear leadership and possibly put the Federation in a bad spot, having killed the Klingon chancellor - even by voluntary combat.
But I like where this episode leaves things off.
And we can lament all we want how and why DS9's commanding officers are always sent on missions better served by specialists - like, how is sending O'Brien on this mission a good idea? But if they wouldn't do that, we'd have different protagonists every other episode and where would be the fun in that?
Thu, Dec 3, 2015, 4:11pm (UTC -5)
So the Benzenite reference is a little confusing as mentioned above. Matters will only get more confusing in the next episode "The Ship", where yet another Benzenite appears in Starfleet but has no breathing tubes whatsoever.
I think the writers on DS9 like the Benzenites, but don't really do any research when they write them into the show.
Sun, Dec 20, 2015, 5:38am (UTC -5)
The episode is fairly engaging and has some amusing moments, but I find the episode's main plot hard to take seriously, especially as it goes on. The repeated "suspense" of "some dopey Klingon interferes with someone putting a sphere on a statue feels really hackneyed. Sisko keeps getting into fights with not just Klingons generally, but the most badass Klingons who are winning medals for their badassery and a) most don't bother hitting him back and b) he wins the one fight because he used to wrestle. Worf is an infamous high-profile pariah traitor and should no way have been on this mission, which is even more maddening when the episode ends up playing off the "will he be recognized?" material with "Martok" staring down *O'BRIEN*, by far the lowest-profile of the four. As Jammer points out, it is really hard to believe that "Martok" escaped detection from Gowron for two years and yet can't go five minutes without giving himself away as a Founder unable to understand the concept of Klingon honour. But most of all, while the idea of exposing Gowron using magic changeling-exposing spheres was fine, and I get that things are desperate, the readiness of our main characters to assassinate Gowron publicly is one of those moments of stupidity that kind of makes you wonder if the Founders should win. That Sisko et al. genuinely have no evidence other than Odo's post-Link suggestion means that they really could be assassinating a non-changeling, in which case the war over the Arcanis system would be a cakewalk by comparison. Putting aside the moral implications of assassinating a foreign head of state because one guy thinks he's a changeling, going through with that assassination after already having been exposed, especially if it turned out Gowron wasn't a changeling (which, yep) would be the ultimate proof of the Federation's dishonour *and* level of threat that would send the Klingons into full berserker mode, last-man fighting the Federation down to nothing. I get that things are desperate, but Sisko et al. lose the moral or strategic high ground about Gowron's suspicions about the Detapa Council because of this, especially given how frequently Sisko and Odo have asserted that the Founders want people confused and suspecting each other. Desperate times, etc., but really.
The main character notes here concern Odo, who has a mini-arc here where he seems to start the episode developing an addiction to the bubble sound in alcohol and has lost his zeal for his work, and then eventually saves the day through his close observation and gets no less than the head of the Klingon Empire congratulating him. That's cute, even if I don't find "Martok's" giving himself away the way he did all that convincing. It seems as if the period of being ill-suited to be a Klingon makes him feel more comfortable in his humanoid but still recognizably Odo skin by comparison. But there's not that much there. Worf gets to play Teacher Of Klingon Ways, as he has several times in the past, but...I dunno. In "A Matter of Honour," and "Sins of the Father" (for Picard) and the less-than-effective "Birthright, Part II," it seemed like Worf's words of advice on Klingon culture meant something. I don't want a repeat of the extreme seriousness of "Birthright, Part II," but the shenanigans here feel empty rather than meaningful as another chance for Worf to get to play at being part of real Klingon culture again despite his pariah status, which maybe could have/should have been the point. Also, Dukat is in the house and he is awesome; I like how the holo-filter breakdown teased that Worf (and, really, likely Sisko et al. as well) would have to go on screen instead, but Dukat just shot the damn thing down. I also like that Damar is getting more definition, and that one of his key traits right now is a short-sightedness (regarding just killing Gowron from above), which, let's keep an eye out on that.
It does feel weird for there to have been a full-on war which broke out with the Klingon Empire off screen, the extent of it is pretty hard to evaluate. The episode is okay-ish but it's almost all plot, and the plot is both fairly slow-paced and has some serious problems. I'd say 2 stars.
In addition to "Martok's" ostensibly demonstrating to Odo that he's a changeling by not wanting honourable combat, it's pretty ridiculous that he's so hot under the collar that Odo's saying "hey I think you're a changeling!" makes him...grow tentacles and start strangling Odo, publicly demonstrating his changeling-ness. Is this how he has responded to every exposure scare in the past year-plus? Totally unconvincing.
Embraces the concept and runs hard with it, amounting to a fun hour of television with a convincing twist and much drinking and head-butting on the way. Oh, and some classic Dukat. Only Sisko makes a convincing Klingon and it's fun to see him embracing the role with vigour. 3 stars.
Sun, Feb 21, 2016, 4:43pm (UTC -5)
This was going all right, until sisko couldn't seem to find the entire tenth of a second it would have taken to press the god damn button. Seemed a bit contrived.
Jammer, you're absolutely 100% right that for a season opener "Apocalypse Rising" feels awfully pedestrian. It's not bad, per se, but it really needed to be more, especially after the ominous closing to "Broken Link". Revealing a Changeling infiltrator at the heart of the Klingon government should be a Quadrant shattering event. Instead, we get a fairly run-of-the-mill action-adventure episode. It's a fun little adventure, to be sure, but that's all it ultimately is.
Add to that the fact that there are some rather large and unavoidable plot contrivances. First, why is Sisko and a large section of his command staff being sent on this mission in the first place. Isn't he one of Starfleet's most valuable commanding officers, in charge of one of the most strategically important bases in the Quadrant? Doesn't Starfleet have a department specifically tailored for this kind of work? Oh yeah, they do! It's called Starfleet Intelligence. The only reason for sending Sisko and company off on this mission is because the plot depends on it, no more explanation apparently needed (much like sending Picard and company off in "Chain of Command, Part I"). Second, why in the name of God does the Martok Changeling attempt to strangle Odo in full view of the Klingons? Again, because the plot required it. Third, I suppose this isn't a plot contrivance but it is still a flaw, there is some noticeable padding. The absolute last thing a season opener should have is padding. Yet, there are at least two scenes that were completely unnecessary - the one between Kira and Bashir where they laugh about her pregnancy and Quark's cameo appearance. The one with Kira and Bashir feels like it's only there as an in-joke to anybody in the audience who happened to know that Visitor was actually pregnant with Siddig's child. And the Quark scene is only there so Shimmerman could collect a paycheck - aside from telling Sisko "Odo's up there", what does it add to the story?
Still, despite all those flaws, it is (like I said) a fun little outing. It's nice to see some of our heroes as Klingons. Avery Brooks was basically allowed free reign over his emotions as his Klingon self, which was enjoyable to watch. It's got a couple of nice character moments for Odo. And it was this episode that convinced the writers to bring back J.G. Hertzler as the real Martok, which lead to one of the best recurring characters on the show. So, it's definitely not a loss as an episode.
I enjoyed this episode. Not great as a season opener, I agree, but a lot of fun. My biggest quibble, as mentioned above, is the ease with which Sisko could knock out a Klingon warrior. Klingons are significantly stronger and significantly better fighters than your average Star Fleet officer. Sisko doesn't train and isn't in especially good shape; there is no way he could take down one of the Empire's finest.
Tue, Jul 5, 2016, 9:47am (UTC -5)
Major nitpicks:
1) Not only do Dukat and Kira openly discuss the infiltration plan on the promenade, but they walk right into the Infirmary with open doors for any who can see to the spectacle of three senior staff members being surgically altered to look like Klingons.
I guess they assume that the Klingon Empire considers espionage to be dishonorable.
2) Wouldn't Starfleet have true experts on Klingon culture who are spies who would be infinitely better suited to this? Special Forces? And they are depending on Dukat to create their fake identify files?! Jesus, Starfleet has no idea what it's doing.
3) Wouldn't Dax have been a much better choice than O'Brien for this mission? Her only real usefulness comes from her familiarity with Klingon culture (obviously she hasn't been any good at her Science Officer job for a while since she hasn't done anything with that position in ages; all I see her do is be a lieutenant commander *helmsman*!!). Plus seeing Dax in Klingon garb would have been way hotter than potato-faced Irish handyman Everyman Edward O'Brien.
Dax also speaks Klingon! Educated Klingons like to speak English anyway (see page 10 of The Klingon Dictionary), but that's no guarantee.
Did anyone catch Damar's evil grin after they blew up the other Bird of Prey? It was awesome! Haha.
"It's not easy being funny wearing these teeth." That sounded like Colm Meany talking to Michael Dorn!
@ Skywalker,
From Memory Alpha:
"Jadzia Dax was not a part of the mission, despite her intimate knowledge of Klingon culture, because Terry Farrell's skin would have been allergic to the excessive Klingon make-up."
She was similarly sensitive to exposure to the sun, meaning she couldn't be filmed in direct sunlight during the series. They made an exception for "Let He Who Is Without Sin" and apparently that was a nightmare.
I totally agree with your points 1 and 2, which I think qualifies this episode as a comedy. It's funny how Sisko gets picked for these random missions where you'd think any member of SI or even Section 31 would be more qualified. One must wonder if Starfleet believes Sisko is the emissary and can actually perform miracles.
Though, as a small defense, Admiral Nacheiv did order Picard to do some pretty random things in "Chain of Command", so you have to wonder what exactly Starfleet is thinking. I'd love to hear from some real-world soldiers to see if their COs ever got picked for random tasks completely outside of their expertise...
And point 3
@Peter G.
Peter already answered this, and it's a shame. I think they could've had Dax throw up her Curzon credentials as a Trill and still be a part of this episode without makeup. She has enough connections in the empire for her to be welcome without looking like a Klingon.
Tue, Jul 5, 2016, 3:18pm (UTC -5)
@Peter G,
Thanks! That's good intel. They needed a better explanation. I imagine this scene:
Sisko: "Worf, Odo, and O'Brien, I am selecting you three to accompany me on this mission."
O'Brien: "Why me? Wouldn't Commander Dax be better suited to infiltrating the Klingon Empire.
Sisko: "Unfortunately the commander has been called away by Starfleet Intelligence for an update on the technical capabilities of Jem'Hadar warships. And you are the only one who will be able to help us set the prototype."
@Chrome,
I actually think that whole incident with Picard is even more stupid. That was just commando stuff, and special operators would so much better. At least Worf (again on the fool's errand!) and Odo make sense.
As a real-world soldier (Army aviation officer), I can tell you that yes, when we don't have more pressing duties, we get assigned random tasks all the time. But never one of such high importance. It's the old Trek trope, "We're the only ship in range," despite the absurdity, because the writers want the main characters involved.
SouthofNorth
Wed, Jul 20, 2016, 11:06am (UTC -5)
As others have pointed out this is a fundamentally stupid episode in which the stars of the show who are completely ill equipped to pull off an Espionage mission are none the less chosen to do it.
You might think the scenes in which they try to learn how to imitate Klingons are funny, but in being funny they also undermine the story's basic premise. I guess that's okay for a kiddie's show, but shouldn't Star Trek aim for something higher and better?
I think the choice of people to go on the mission are correct...
Sisko - obvious reasons, captain, leader, and tough enough to be a Klingon
Worf- they needed him to get around , understand how to be a Klingon, the protocols and rituals, etc
Odo - they are going after a changeling, and he is a tough guy... needed to be there
O Brien - this technobabble equipment needed the chief.. I suppose you could have put Dax in there instead; however, I assume they wanted the comedy of the soft spoken passive chief O Brien having to play a tough Klingon.
Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 1:15am (UTC -5)
@ dave,
It was supposed to be Dax and not O'Brien, but Farrell was allergic to the makeup and couldn't do it.
well, there is a little piece of trivia I didn't know. Thanks!
Tue, Dec 27, 2016, 4:09pm (UTC -5)
After losing everything just two episodes ago, Quark's Bar seems to have completely recovered already.
Fri, Jan 27, 2017, 7:29pm (UTC -5)
Solid episode, I just wanted to say what a great and nuanced character Dukat was. Too bad they completely ruined him and turned him in a complete, almost cartoon-like, villain in the final season.
Fri, Jan 27, 2017, 10:38pm (UTC -5)
You're being unfair to Dukat, Filip. He was completely ruined in the *6th* season.
Sun, May 7, 2017, 3:04pm (UTC -5)
This episode brings everything together. Avery Brooks was miscast as Sisko. He should have been a Klingon. His over ACTING and O V E R - E Nun See Ay Shun make him look like an idiot as Sisko, but fit perfectly for a douchey Klingon.
Also, a Klingon with an Irish accent. Nice.
At least there was no Keiko.
Can't wait for all this Klingon crap to be over.
JJ Not Abrams 8-)
Surprised that nobody commented on Sisko briefing Odo about the
secret undercover mission ... on the second floor of Quark's Bar ...
with people sitting at other tables all around. Starfleet Security
at it's finest!
Fri, Jul 7, 2017, 9:10pm (UTC -5)
I *still* think you are underrating this episode because you had a personal expectation that the first/last episodes of each season should always involve major shakeups.
{ O V E R - E Nun See Ay Shun }
I gotta say, I like Avery Brooks as Sisko most of the time, but yes his OV ER EN NUN CI A TION whenever he gets angry at someone is really really bad.
Wed, Aug 9, 2017, 9:58pm (UTC -5)
Very solid episode. Season five is when the show got so much better. The first four seasons were very uneven but here pieces introduced back then started to actually be put to good use in much more interesting ways and in much more entertaining episodes
DS9 was always at its best in my opinion when telling arc based stories or episodes that tied into the bigger picture. This was such a story--Doninion infiltrators, dominion scheming, Klingons all in a very good action adventure story with suspense as to how far the crew gets in exposing Gowron with plenty of logical and smart roadblocks from dropping the polaron device to Worf thinking quickly to Sisko getting caught. Then the twist I did NOT see of Martok being the changeling. It sets the Federation and Klingons back on a path of friendship. However the writers blew every opportunity to make use of the Federation/Klingon rift over all of season four virtually doing absolutely nothing worthwhile with it I have to wonder why even introduce to begin with.
Entertaining episode with the usual Klingon culture and a bit of a twist at the end but nothing probing. Some good/fun moments with Sisko, Odo, O'Brien learning to act as Klingons. I think Brooks' style of acting naturally make him a good Klingon -- always bombastic in his delivery.
Nice to see Dukat again enjoying a chuckle at the plan to infiltrate the Klingon stronghold. Guess he still has his Klingon ship handy.
It's a fairly typical story with the plan having its moments of almost falling apart like when Odo's device is taken by another Klingon and then the shapeshifter/Klingon general striking down Sisko. Of course the general is found out and blasted apart, but for me, the best part is seeing Gowron and his eyes again. Having just watched TNG's "Redemption" I wanted to see more Gowron. Odo did come in handy after all in identifying the shapeshifter but that part seemed to go buy too quickly -- not sure exactly how he picked up on it.
The part about how dangerous the mission is was sort of dealt with when the episode focused on Jake/Kira etc on the station but it wasn't played up as much as I thought it should have been. Really, it went quite smoothly until the imprisonment when the plot twist came.
"Apocalypse Rising" deserves 3 stars. It's a solid, but standard episode about a covert mission with a decent ending -- more Changeling infiltration and maybe now the Klingon/Federation are closer together and the Founders have a bit more work to do.
All flaws are good and well, but only JC mentions the most annoying one: how hard is it to push a frigging button? Even when you're down? That's at least a subtraction of one whole Star.
But this episode earns back a star for Klingon Sisko. He is a better Klingon than human and his overacting fits nicely with this warrior race. Fun episode.
Mon, May 14, 2018, 11:28pm (UTC -5)
Re: Benzites or whatever. Trek seems to have an automatic RetConning of first contact (and other such milestones, like first X in Starfleet and so forth) when it comes to introducing new alien species. The Ferengi first contact was not that long ago in TNG, now it's like they are everywhere and always have been. It's probably a production decision, it's easier to develop what you've already sketched out and ignore all the generations of cultural blending that would presumably have to happen.
...the same goes for the Trill. In TNG, it was a WTF "who ARE these people?" kind of reaction. In DS9, they are old news to humans as Sisko/Dax illustrate. Or the idea that humans learned about Pon Far from Mr Spock first, when Vulcans had been serving in Starfleet for decades already. Things are presented as new when introduced on the show (if only for the sake of the audience), then they become in-universe old common knowledge within a season or two.
...and the supposed first contact with the Borg, for that matter (TNG? ST:FC? Voy? Ent?). On and on it goes!
Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 11:40am (UTC -5)
"Apocalypse Rising" is a very solid start to the fifth season. It's nice to finally resolve the Klingon conflict so the show can get back on track. Avery Brooks fits in very well as a Klingon, and the story is well paced and doesn't drag or slow down.
--Interesting start. The captain is heading to infiltrate the Klingon empire.
--Odo is drowning his sorrows.
--Star Fleet is handing out round, LOL doll containers to destabilize the changeling that is Gowron.
--Dukat ! Chief O'Brien makes one strange Klingon.
--So Nana is actually pregnant with Siddig's baby, here? I looked this up. I saw a picture of the grown up baby. The "This is your fault!" dialogue is a bit much, but , but I imagine some fans loved it.
--Lots of time drinking bloodwine and mingling . . .
--And heeeeere's Gowron!! Please let the destabilizers work and bring an end to this story line.
--Oh, no. It's not going to work? Bummer, bummer, bummer, bummer.
--Please let Gawron be a changeling and let this plan work. Ok, no. Martok is the changeling? Nicer switcheroo. Either way, please let this work.
--What's the explanation for why Gawron went along with Martok, and started the war? Just that "Martok pushed for it?"
--Overall entertaining, and got us to a good enough conclusion. We were amused. :) Onward.
Star Trek Joy
Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 10:20pm (UTC -5)
Who out ranks who if Sisko hadn't returned? Worf or Kira? Who would have won that dispute? Captain of Defiant or First Officer of the station?
I think Worf would have left anyway. Lol!!
If we succeed there will be many songs sung in our honor -Worf HAHA! Always the Klingon warrior.
O'Brian makes one ugly looking Klingon! 😂 But I love the Irish accent in a Klingon body!
Sisko lookin like a Klingon version of Rick James 😂
Alllll those Klingons and nooooobody recognizes Worf who has no disguise? Mortok stares him right in the face and doesn't recognize him?? But recognizes Sisko? Um...ok?
Bobbington Mc Bob
So they disguised Worf as .... a Klingon, and he looked exactly like Worf wearing klingon armour. No one recognised him.
OK, fiiiiiiiiiiine.
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Coach and inspire on-air talent to be exciting and engaging.
Perform other tasks as required by supervisor or executive producer.
BA/BS in journalism, communications or related field
Experience in photojournalism, editing, and content management systems
Understanding the tenets of professional journalism
Skills in producing engaging, content-driven newscasts and digital content
Strong social media skills, including an active news hound presence on Twitter and Facebook
Knowledge of ENPS, Edius and Axis graphics a plus
Organizational skills and the ability to work under constant time pressure deadlines
Ability to calmly handle live, breaking news situations and changing events
About TEGNA:
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) is an innovative media company that serves the greater good of our communities. With 46 stations in 38 markets, TEGNA delivers relevant content and information to consumers across platforms. It is the largest owner of top 4 affiliates in the top 25 markets, reaching approximately one-third of all television households nationwide. Each month, TEGNA reaches 50 million adults on-air and 32 million across its digital platforms. TEGNA has been consistently honored with the industry’s top awards, including Edward R. Murrow, George Polk, Alfred I. DuPont and Emmy Awards. TEGNA delivers results for advertisers through unparalleled and innovative solutions including OTT local advertising network Premion, centralized marketing resource Hatch, and G/O Digital, a one-stop shop for local businesses to connect with consumers through digital marketing. Across platforms, TEGNA tells empowering stories, conducts impactful investigations and delivers innovative marketing solutions. For more information, visit www.TEGNA.com.
TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are a drug free, EEO employer committed to a diverse workforce. We encourage and consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, disability, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, veteran status or genetic information.
https://www.jobs.net/jobs/tegna/en-us/job/United-States/Multi-Platform-Producer/J3R1BF6TGTHYZTGMZBN/ Multi-Platform Producer
Location: Knoxville, TN
Job Type: Media - Journalism - Newspaper
TEGNA, Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are a drug free, EEO employer committed to a diverse workforce. We will consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, disability, education, political affiliation, veteran status or genetic information.
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Tay Guan Hin: Mentors, Young Talent & LA vs. Singapore
J. Walter Thompson Worldwide
This year, Tay Guan Hin, our Global Executive Creative Director for South East Asia, was selected as one of the four Asian representatives on the Executive Jury at this year’s New York Festival. We caught up with Guan to hear about his creative journey and what he looks for when he steps into the jury room.
What is the difference between great work and award-winning work?
Truly award-worthy work redefines conventional thinking, taps into popular culture that triggers conversation, and allows our consumers to care, share or participate. Something brutally simple, yet rooted in deep insights usually creates an impact so memorable that it gets makes me think long after I have experienced it. In this fast-changing world, given our short attention span, if the work takes more than thirty seconds to make an impression, it’s dead.
You started your career in Los Angeles, California before continuing to work in Singapore. What would you say are the distinct differences between the creative industry in LA and the industry in Singapore?
I won my first award as an Art Center College of Design graduate at the Los Angles Creative Club Student competition. Winning the Best of Show opened up an opportunity for me to work with one of the judges. I truly enjoyed my time experiencing a new culture that was much more open than Singapore. Creative use of copy and humor played a huge part in American advertising, which took me a while to get used to. In Asia, because of the different languages, visual work that could communicate a message across languages is much more preferred than clever copy. This was completely opposite from my earlier experience America.
What are some of your favorite campaigns from the past year?
From our network, I would pick something closer to home from JWT Bangkok. Specifically, their campaign “Touchable Ink” that was done for Samsung. They created a new ink that can rise when heated to form embossed versions of flat row of Braille letters. I simply love the fact that the technology is more affordable than expensive Braille embosser. I hope this continues to be developed further so it can be accessible to all visually impaired around the world. More recently, when “Fearless Girl” first appeared on my Facebook post, it had already taken the world by storm. It’s a brave and outstanding piece of work that got everyone talking on International Women’s Day.
You've been committed to mentoring young talents in Asia. What would be your advice to aspiring young creatives who are trying to achieve your level of success?
The hunger to succeed, whatever the cost, is probably the most important virtue an aspiring young creative needs to have. Hunger drives passion, and passionate people have such an insatiable appetite for success that overcomes any shortcomings in talent. The hunger to learn without being defensive when criticized makes a huge difference when junior creatives are being mentored. Being open minded and the ability to absorb different points of view, is also critical.
Tell us about a mentor that shaped who you are as a creative leader today.
There are two mentors that created a profound impact in my career. The first is Ms. Linda Locke, with whom I worked with when I was at Saatchi and Saatchi and at Leo Burnett. She has the uncanny ability to be a talented creative and a fantastic manager. She’s extremely demanding and her objective is very clear. I’ve learned management skills from her. The second is Dave Droga. With Dave, it’s all pretty spontaneous. He’s a natural in developing ideas spontaneously and picking things up on the run. When I knew him at Saatchi and Saatchi in Singapore, he was just starting his career and was extremely brave. He had an “anything goes” type of personality. Coming from having a very conservative Asian perspective, it was very liberating seeing him break all the boundaries.
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